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Rugby: Kenya Lionesses inch closer to 2020 Olympic Games

By Clement Wekulo | Oct. 13, 2019

**Lioness sevens' during training at RFU grounds, March 28, 2019**. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

The Kenya national women’s rugby Sevens team, Lionesses, is on the verge of qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games after reaching the quarter-finals of the Africa Sevens-cum-Olympic qualifiers in Monastir, Tunisia yesterday.

Kenya, who are seeking to return to the Olympics after making their debut in Brazil in 2016, qualified for the last eight with a game to spare after thrashing debutants Ghana 36-0, before following it up with an emphatic 49-0 victory over Botswana in their second pool A contest.

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