If he's home, Mr Keino eats breakfast with the athletes who are staying at his centre.

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The Kenyan government was not represented at that meeting and has since demanded changes to Keino's committee.

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The fields around the training centre belong to a farm which is also run by Kip Keino's family.

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Mr Keino is now 60 and he is incredibly trim looking.

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Over slices of bread and peanut butter Mr Keino enthuses over the cheese which is produced on the farm and even finds its way onto supermarket shelves in Nairobi.

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But it turns out that Mr Keino's eldest son - the one who normally drives the minivan for the athletes - has gone to market to sell some tomatoes.

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Keino was appointed to head the so-called Normalisation Committee formed at a meeting on 9 July in Zurich to resolve the crisis that triggered Kenya's ban from the international stage.

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Fifa's deputy secretary general Jerome Champagne confirmed to BBC Sport that Blatter will meet Ayacko on 20 July and said the pair are likely to be joined by Kipchoge Keino.

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Meanwhile, Kenya's national side look set to start training once again as it looks to regain its place in the qualifying rounds for the 2006 World Cup finals, according to Keino.

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