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Will Kenya finally open its medal account today?

Kenya's Hellen Obiri in action during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics women's 5000m round one, on Friday. [Reuters]

Kenya’s performance at the Tokyo Olympics has not been encouraging so far.

However not much was expected from the events that Kenyans have competed in and only an overly optimistic Kenyan would have expected the country to strike gold in boxing, swimming, taekwondo, indoor volleyball even beach volleyball.

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