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Gor and AFC should be banned for giving Kenya a bad name

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Gor Mahia FC team during first round match of the CAF Champions league against Esperance of Tunisia on March 7, 2018 at Kenyatta Stadium, Machakos County. The match ended in a barren draw. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Last weekend, many Kenyans missed sleep or went to bed early to wake up in the wee hours to watch the Sevens Rugby team play in the Vancouver Sevens leg of the World Rugby Series.

Despite the challenges the Sevens team — and probably all other national teams — face, largely due to problems not of the athletes’ own making, the Sevens Rugby team, did, as Kenyans are wont to say, the country proud.

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