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The President has explained how Kenya plans to conqueror the world at next year’s Olympics to restore its fading status as an athletics powerhouse
President William Ruto has promised to ensure the country restores its position as an athletics powerhouse by funding a three-month residential camp for Team Kenya ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Kenya has largely relied on athletics for medals at the Olympics with boxing the only other sport that has brought a medal to the country since its first participation at the games in 1964.
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ATHLETICS Omanyala's chances of bagging Diamond League Final Trophy increase as serial threat ends season in Zurich
Africa's fastest man's path to Diamond League Final glory has become less daunting after one of his main rivals' decision to complete his 2023 campaign in Switzerland
However, that happened last in 1988 through then men’s middleweight bronze medallist Chris Sande and the government is keen to correct this going by President Ruto’s sentiments.
“Winning medals starts with meticulous, intense, and quality preparations. For the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, we will support a three-month residential camp for the Kenyan team. This will restore our position as an athletics powerhouse in the world,” the Head of State said via a social media post, after hosting 2023 World Athletics Championship gold medallists Faith Kipyegon and Mary Moraa at State House, Nairobi on Saturday.
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ATHLETICS Wiseman Were shifts focus to Paris Olympics after World Championships heartbreak
The main reason he will be heading to Switzerland is to attain the qualifying time for the Olympic Games in Paris next year.
The President is perhaps cognizant of the fact that the country seems to be losing its grip as an athletics powerhouse following less-than-impressive outings in the recent past.
Kenya could only manage three gold medals at the recently-concluded World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary with Kipyegon winning two (1,500m and 5,000m) while Moraa bagged the other (800m).
The medal count could have been more than the three gold, as many silver and four bronze in Budapest but Team Kenya lost both the steeplechase races, failed to win a medal in the marathons, the country’s bread and butter, as well as the men’s 1,500m.
It means the country will have to go back to the drawing board to right those wrongs before heading to Paris.
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BOXING Kenyan boxers gear up for Africa Olympic qualifiers with specialised training in Cuba
The Hit Squad, is training in Cuba with support from the government ahead of the Africa Olympic Qualifiers in Senegal.
National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) has already secured state-of-the-art facilities in Miramas city in France where Kenyan athletes will set up a pre-Olympics boot camp in the run-up to the Games in Paris.
Kenya won 10 medals (four gold as many silver and two bronze) at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and will be seeking to better that tally in the French capital.
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