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Kenyan boxing Olympian Elizabeth Andiego hospitalised after accident

ANDIEGO IN HOSPITAL
Elizabeth Andiego at Kenyatta National Hospital awaiting to go to the theatre last evening. [PHOTO:ERICK OCHIENG'/STANDARD]

Kenyan boxing Olympian Elizabeth Andiego's hopes of participating in the Rio Games hang in the balance after she was involved in a near-fatal accident in Nairobi on Monday night.  

Andiego, who was riding home on a motorcycle, was hit by a speeding taxi that left her with a fractured leg and a cracked skull along Nairobi's Kangundo Road.

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