Fresh elections, same old faces: National Olympic body fails gender balance as more men take top positions in the executive

President NOCK Paul Tergat (left) chat with Newly elected executive board member Paul Otula Chairman KBF during the NOCK General Assembly meeting at PrideInn, Nairobi on Thursday, Dec 9, 2021. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]]

Very few sports enthusiasts expected the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) executive to retain virtually all their seats at the four-year cycle elections held at a Nairobi hotel yesterday.

But bruised egos and shattered dreams were quite evident as candidates in former secretary general Francis Paul Kinyili and former deputy secretary general James Chacha failed to recapture their seats.