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Kenya Lionesses savour Olympic Games qualification

Celestine Masinde tackles Portia Woodman of New Zealand during the 2016 Olympics Games in Brazil. [Reuters]

Kenya Lionesses head coach Felix Oloo was full of praise for his charges after guiding the national women’s rugby Sevens team to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Despite losing 15-14 to perennial rivals South Africa in the final of the Africa Sevens-cum-Olympic qualifiers in Tunisia at the weekend, Lionesses bagged the ticket to represent the continent in the quadrennial event since the South African Sports Confederation and Olympics Committee decided not to send their team to the summer games via the regional qualifiers.

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