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Hail Sevens rugby team for doing Kenya proud

Editorial

By The Standard | Apr 19, 2016

For Kenya, it is a season of firsts. Only days after the Harambee Starlets, the national women football team made history by qualifying for the African Women Cup of Nations to be held in Cameroon in November this year for the first time, Kenya’s Rugby Sevens team crowned the moment by, for the first time too, winning the Rugby Sevens cup in Singapore.

Yet clinching this cup was not a matter of happenstance. It has been a long painstaking process that speaks volumes of what team work, togetherness and resilience can achieve.

The national team played against the more experienced and professional Fiji team that held the cup until Kenya upset them.

It is a victory we must celebrate for bringing the country together as Kenyans rooted for our national team; hoisting Kenya’s flag high on the international scene to put a dampener on warring politicians who a day earlier, held rallies that did little to unify the country.

Let us capitalise on the hope and pride our sportsmen and women bring the country to build a nation worth being proud of.

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For the Rugby Sevens team, it was sweet revenge for a humiliating defeat the team faced at the hands of the Fijians in 1998 when they were resoundingly beaten 71—0 at the Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

It is not yet over, for there are two more stages remaining to complete the Rugby Sevens series. The team has shown it has what it takes to make it to the top, but it must be appreciated that they need support; both material and financial to make it all the way to there.

Thus, the Ministry of Sports should abandon its lackadaisical approach to matters of sport and adopt a more proactive stance and formulate policies that promote and reward success in sports.