Kenya’s quartet of Selah Busienei, Joyce Zakary, Sylvia Chesebe and Virginia Nyambura saved the blushes of the Kenyan team on the opening day of the IAAF World Relays in Bahamas, after winning the silver medal in the women’s distance medley and setting an African record of 10:43.35, at a fully-packed Thomas A. Robinson Stadium, on Saturday night.

Usain Bolt has bolted and shattered records at will all over the world, but still there is something he misses Lightning Bolt, a cheetah cub he adopted at the Nairobi National Park in November 2009.

Olympic 4x400m champion and world indoor 400m silver medallist Chris Brown believes Kenya has what it takes to perform well in the short distance races.

The national relays team arrived here in Nassau, Bahamas beaming with confidence as the IAAF World Relays start today at the 15,000, state-of-the-art, Thomas A. Robinson Stadium.