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Vaccination, funding at the centre of Kenya's Tokyo Olympics preparations

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From left: Standard group Sports Editor Robin Toskin, Team Kenya Chef de Mission Waithaka Kioni, Rose Wachuka, Policy Advisor and the Chief of Staff Office, Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage and Barnabas Korir, General Team Manager. [Olympics Kenya]

Less than a month to the invite-only national trials in June, the government, through the Ministry of Sports announced on Friday, team Kenya (for the rescheduled Olympic and Paralympic Games) will be prioritised in the impending second dose of COVID-19 vaccines expected to kick off next week.

The Ministry disclosed four pillars that it said, are key in the Olympic Games preparations.

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