Pain of our champions should not be in vain

This has been a month of shame for Kenya. Paradoxically, the event that shamed us was also the one that showcased our best talent. This was to be Kenya’s greatest Olympics after narrowly avoiding a ban after our Sports law debacle and managed to avoid sanction on the drugs matter. Things however started going down the moment of travel to the Olympics.

It would appear that somewhere along the way, the Return on Investment in the “cheering crowd” was so attractive that some critical non-core investments, like Silver winning Joseph Yego, were forgotten. I understand it took the protests of his fellow Olympiads to get him a ticket at the appropriate time to travel to Rio. By the way someone should publish names of every Kenyan who travelled to Rio on the public purse and the justification for their trip there!