Must have been my first year at Kakamega High School…we were attending Sunday service in the school hall. We didnt have a choice. Our collective attention deficits meant that we were either dozing off or zoning out as a result of the…
The early part of this week saw a couple of mates and I down to Kisii to pay our last respects to a departed friend. On recommendation from a friend, we tried out this Air BnB place in Kisii Town. I must…
Neither here…neither there… Lukewarm…apathetic..indifferent… Zombified…in a trance…numb… This is my headspace… Tears in my eyes…sorrow shows on my face…heavy is the heart Loved my solitude…but now I fear it…afraid of my own thoughts… On the outside I’m strong…on the inside I’m weak……
Looking at current strides in nutrition, strength and conditioning, one can’t help but reminisce how back in the day, guys would feast thoroughly on meals heavily before a match, with management encouraging this.
Come 4.30pm and you, the fastest guy on your team, would be running with the handbrake on, well fed!
Other guys would push serious weights on the morning of a game, the fatigue showing later that afternoon.
Rudisha’s record was considered especially notable for the absence of pacemakers,which are not permitted at the Olympics or other major championships. The previous person to win an Olympic 800 m final with a world record was Alberto Juantorena, back in 1976. Rudisha also became the first reigning 800 m world champion to win Olympic gold at that distance.
Kenya competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, People’s Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008 winning a total of 14 medals, 6 of the gold, its best ever performance at the Olympics.
The Kenyans sent a total of 28 men and 18 women in five disciplines to the 2008 summer Olympics. These disciplines were Athletics, Boxing, Rowing, Swimming and Taekwondo.
For the first time ever, women outnumbered men in the Kenyan contingent to Greece which was comprised of 46 athletes ( 22 men and 24 women) taking part in four disciplines namely Athletics, Rowing, Volleyball and Swimming. Kenya was not represented in boxing for the first time since 1964.
Kenya returned to Australia for the first time since making a debut at the 1956 games in Melbourne, only difference is that the first games of the new millennium were taking place in Sydney. Kenya was represented by a team sport for only the second time, and the first time since 1988 as the women’s volleyball national team qualified to represent Africa. Kenya’s contingent of 56 (34 men and 22 women) was also represented in Athletics, Archery, Boxing, Cycling and Swimming.
