Kenya comes together to celebrate Jelimo’s triumphant home coming

Nairobi, Kenya – Pamela Jelimo didn’t know what hit her after her SN Brussels Airlines flight landed at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport shortly after 10.30 pm on Tuesday night.

The 18-year-old Olympic 800m champion and $1 Million ÅF Golden League Jackpot winner has suddenly turned out to be Kenya’s biggest celebrity following her brilliant maiden season on the global track and field stage.

Senior Kenyan government officials, including top Cabinet Ministers, were at the airport to receive her upon her first visit back home after winning the Olympic Gold medal in Beijing, strangely Kenya’s first ever women’s gold medal at the Olympic Games.

Stretch limousines, police guard and a battery of journalists in tow were scenes unfamiliar to the girl from the modest Kiptamok Village in Kaptumo, Nandi South District, who has wisely decided to bank her substantial prize money in Monaco, the Mediterranean principality which is the home of the IAAF.