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With 192 days to go to the Paris Olympic Video games, the Nationwide Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) and sports activities federations should solid the web huge and guarantee Kenya is represented in a wealthy number of sports activities on the Video games.
It’s encouraging that workforce occasions have certified for the July 26 to August 11 Paris Video games, particularly the boys’s sevens rugby workforce and the ladies’s volleyball workforce.
Kenya expects to qualify the ladies’s 3×3 basketball and sevens rugby groups for the Olympics alongside representatives in boxing, taekwondo and swimming, the latter three via affirmative motion.
Biking, desk tennis, garden tennis and triathlon federations additionally hope to qualify athletes from the African Video games set for, hopefully, March 8 to 23 in Accra, alongside seaside volleyball, wrestling and handball from the continental qualifiers.
Africa champion Alexandra Ndolo additionally appears destined to characterize Kenya for the primary time in fencing by advantage of being the continental champion and excessive up the world rankings.
It’s now a dash end the place NOCK, sports activities federations and the federal government ought to cease at nothing to make sure we surpass our earlier medals haul in Paris.
Kenya collected 10 medals – 4 gold, 4 silver and two bronze — on the Tokyo Video games the place it was represented by 85 athletes in six sports activities. The Rio Olympics stays Kenya’s finest ever Summer season Video games outing with 15 medals — six gold, six silver and one bronze — all from athletics.
It’s our hope that our workforce will finish the over-reliance on athletics for medals therefore the necessity to solid the web huge in Paris.
The final time Kenya secured medals exterior athletics was on the 1988 Seoul Video games from boxing via the late Robert Wangila’s gold within the welterweight division and Chris Sande’s bronze within the middleweight.
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