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This year’s Summer Games changed Kenya’s Olympic terrain

July 30, 2021. Abraham Kibiwott of Kenya reacts after competing REUTERS

Three adjectives –history, threat and reprieve –clearly describe Kenya’s performance at the Tokyo Olympic Games that ended yesterday.

The 89-member squad, comprising seven sports disciplines, an average performance and some exciting talking points that would shape the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The athletics team struggled to break the duck and Ethiopian as well as Ugandan and Moroccan aggression in Kenya’s dormant races at the Olympics.

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