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High expectations as Kenya tables bid to host 2025 World Athletics Championships

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King Kyree of USA (left), Ferdinand Omanyala (centre) and Trayvon Brommel of USA battle in 100m final during The Kip Keino Classic-World Athletics Continental Tour 2021 at Kasarani Stadium, Nairobi, on September18, 2021. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Kenya could be the first country in Africa to host the World Athletics Championships in 2025.

This is only if the bid that Athletics Kenya (AK) placed before World Athletics (WA) sails through.

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