IN LONDONBefore Tuesday night’s finals, Dutchman Jos Hermens’ Global Sports Communications (GSC) was leading in the agents’ medals table with three gold medals, two of them won by Kenya’s Geoffrey Kirui and Faith Chepng’etich. Besides the competition between countries, athletes’ representatives - or agents as they are better known – also draw battle lines in rivalries of their own with the success in medal collection signalling a major business boost. London-based Ricky Simms, whose Pace Sports Management handles Jamaican legend Usain Bolt and Great Britain’s distance running sensation Mo Farah, had by Monday garnered two gold medals. GSC’s success stories include Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge and Uganda’s 10,000m silver medallist here Joshua Cheptegei. Kenya’s hope in the women’s 5,000m Hellen Obiri and Olympic 5,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot both belong to Simms’ Teddington-based stable.

Source: Daily Nation August 08, 2017 19:05 UTC