In the sport, he represented Kenya in four winter cross country Olympic games. Nike wanted to know whether athletes would transit to skiing and register good performance in the sport,” Boit recalls. They were on a mission to be the first Kenyan team to take part in winter cross country skiing. There was only one slot for Kenya in the 1998 Winter Olympics and Boit was lucky to represent Kenya. [Stephen Rutto, Standard]Boit would later take part in the 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Olympic skiing.

Source: Standard Digital December 08, 2020 20:01 UTC