{"id":424470,"date":"2011-05-16T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/16\/kenya-nurture-young-talent\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T01:48:11","slug":"kenya-nurture-young-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/kenya-nurture-young-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nurture Young Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.4286199864\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>15 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>editorial<\/p>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya has for long dominated the track and field competitions.<\/p>\n<p>However, with just three months to the World Championships, most of the country&#8217;s best runners have not qualified.<\/p>\n<p>The World Championships, the third biggest sports competition after the Olympics and the World Cup, allows entries of athletes who have clocked specified times. So far, only about 15 Kenyan runners have done so.<\/p>\n<p>Although Athletics Kenya (AK) has voiced its concern about the small number of qualifiers, the problem is embedded within the federation.<\/p>\n<p>With competitions abroad either cut down or restricted to citizens, Athletics Kenya has done little to develop its own one-day championships to gauge and expose emerging talent.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it relies on foreigners to prepare its athletes for major championships.<\/p>\n<p>AK must get involved at the grassroots by setting up camps and employing coaches to manage and bring up new talent.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign agents have long ruled the local athletics field, dictating which race runners can compete in.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, how can AK explain its dilemma on which names to include in the marathon team for the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, yet it has more than 160 athletes qualified?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105160048.html\" title=\"Kenya: Nurture Young Talent\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Nurture Young Talent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 15 May 2011 editorial Nairobi \u2014 Kenya has for long dominated the track and field competitions. However, with just three months to the World Championships, most of the country&#8217;s best runners have not qualified. The World Championships, the third biggest sports competition after the Olympics and the World Cup, allows entries of athletes who have clocked specified times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":401166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-424470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Nurture Young Talent - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/kenya-nurture-young-talent\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Nurture Young Talent - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"15 May 2011 editorial Nairobi \u2014 Kenya has for long dominated the track and field competitions. 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