Kenya at the Olympics Episode 2: The Early Years

Kenya first participated at the Summer olympics as a colony of the British Empire, in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics fielding squads that mostly comprised of British settlers, with the exception of the men’s hockey team, which was mostly Kenyans of Indian descent. This was reflective of the segeragation of access to sorting activities that was characteristics of colonial rule throughout what is now known as the third world.

Kenya being granted independence saw the remocval of such restrictions the gradual transformation of Kenya’s olympic teams from a handfu of amateurs, witha few token natives, to a the middle and long distance running powerhouse people know tpday, starting with the bronze medal of one Wislon Kiprugut at the 1964 Olypics

Money Money Money!

How many times have followers of the game heard this. “Unfortunately due to the inability to raise our x million shilling budget due to the lack opf response from sponsor y( whose fault it is entirely for this debacle) , we have had to cancel our participation from international competition z”

Anyway it seems the Kenya Hockey Union has very unfortunately had to pull out that excuse again as it has been reported that they have pulled Kenya’s national team out of the Africa Cup of Nations hockey tornament in Accra. The sponsor y in this case being the government whom they have accused of failing to respond to their plees to part finance their 11 million shilling budget for the trip. The Commisioner of Sports on the othert hand was not slow to pull out the classic excuse of ‘being unaware’ of any such request presented by the Kenya Hockey Union.

Kenya’s absence from the Africa cup means they misss out on the qualifying tournament fro the World Championships, and thus by default kenya miss the World Championships, themselves as well as a ranking event for possible inclusion in the next Commonwealth games in India.

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Hello good day all you supporters of all Kenyan sports teams and athletes competing in various disciplines all over the worldand in the domestic circuit . This blog will include specialized articles on, Football, Rugby, Cricket, Athletics, Hockey, Volleyball(both men and women) as well as special mentions for basketball, swimming motor sports and possibly martial arts if enough info on Kenyan athletes in that discipline can be provided. Please feel free to send in information comments and suggestions and hopefully through your contributions we can make this blog both insightful and enjoyable to all readers

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