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Tae Kwon do teams keep airing dirty linen in public

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The door was slammed on the Tae Kwon do team entered by the Games Management Committee to represent Kenya at the All Africa Games here. Instead, the team brought here on Wednesday by a faction not aligned to the Government side, entered their athletes for competition and were due to start action yesterday evening.

Negotiations to end the impasse, called by Chef De Mission Gordon Oluoch and attended by National Olympic Committee of Kenya chairman, Kipchoge Keino and Chairman of Kenya National Sports Council (KNSC), became a cropper.

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