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No Olympic fanfare as Eldoret gears up for national trials next week

World Javelin Champion Julius Yego demonstrates his skills before emerging the best in the tournament with 78.86 points during the Athletic Track and Field event held at Kipchoge Stadium in Eldoret yesterday. 16.04.2016. Pictures By Peter Ochieng

The adrenaline levels are running high as the Rio Olympic national trials, the first to be held outside Nairobi since independence, fast approach.

Top guns are now tuning up their form ahead of the selections often billed as the toughest athletics selections in the world after the USA.

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