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Kenyans chase elusive gold

Sri Lanka's Dulani Jayasinghe (in red) fights Kenya's Christine Ongare (in blue) during their women's 51kg category quarter-final boxing match during their 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Oxenford Studios venue in Gold Coast on April 11, 2018. / AFP PHOTO /

Former world 400m hurdles champion Nicholas Bett and Jonathan Kitilit will lead men’s onslaught in the battle for the first gold medal for Kenya at the Commonwealth Games in Carrara Stadium today.

Bett will team up with his elder brother Aron Koech, the Africa bronze medallist, in the one lap barriers race.

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