On 8 August 2012 15:33, lordmwesh
<lordmwesh@gmail.com> wrote:
Here is the tweet
http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/TalkUp/NOCK+officials+must+take+the++cane+for+the+mess+in+London/-/441392/1473844/-/view/asBlogPost/-/vecu8o/-/index.html
That's one strange long tweet.
Back to the issues raised:
I think the buck remains with the managers of the sports in Kenya. Can one explain, how pot-bellied guys can run sports? There is no correlation here.
Secondly, we have been over excited with athletics as the only game in which Kenyans can flourish in. I don't see why we can't take part in other sports such as javellin, yet we have people who can single-handed kill a lion? There are lots of sports in which we can give a try and stop comfortably thinking athletics only.
The recruitment of sportsmen, again, should not be limited to the disciplined uniformed forces, but to other constituencies, more specifically, the youth who are idling and wasting away. The yardstick should be extended by far and wide.
I also think, in my layman understanding, the payment of these heroes and heroines, should commensurate to the training and they undertake.
Finally, (this one I heard on radio) I don't understand the reason why Athletics Kenya allow foreigners to train in Kenyan soil for a month, yet Kenyans, read Harambee Stars, cannot train in countries such as Brazil or Spain for a month?
My 2 cents
Solomon
On 8 August 2012 15:20, Agosta Liko
<agostal@gmail.com> wrote:
Source: Anonymous tweet from London
Thats a really long tweet
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Oliver Ndegwa
<olie.ndegwa@gmail.com> wrote:
#EK – ALL IS NOT WELL AT TEAM KENYA CAMP…
Kenya came into the London Olympics with high hopes, everyone
confident that we would surpass the performance of Beijing four years
ago where Team Kenya scooped six gold, four silver and four bronze
medals.
But the pre-Games tension between the National Olympic Committee of
Kenya and Athletics Kenya has thrown Kenya’s campaign to the dogs.
It is sad watching our sports officials, with their bloated egos,
fighting turf wars at the expense of the country’s respected name and
image.
Many will wonder just how Vivian Cheruiyot, the double world champion
(5,000 and 10,000 metres) faded away badly in the opening day’s
10,000m final and indeed why London Marathon champion Mary Keitany
failed to get a medal in the marathon last Sunday.
Questions arise from the women’s steeplechase debacle and the fact
that we have just Hellen Obiri in Wednesday’s 1,500m semi-finals or
how we failed to break the 44-year jinx in the men’s 10,000m.
Well the answer to these questions is simple: Our officials have let
us down terribly and they must do the honourable thing and take the
long walk away from managing sport in the country. Period.
Management abandoned officials
We raised the flag when a dozen officials from Kenya’s Olympics
management team literally abandoned athletes to rush to a pre-season
camp in Bristol that meant little in terms of quality preparations,
especially for distance runners.
We saw Ezekiel Kemboi travel to Bristol, and then flee back home due
to the atrocious conditions there, where the recalcitrant NOCK
officials set up camp merely to rake in their $300-a-day allowances,
totally ignoring the fact that serious competition awaited the team at
the Olympic Stadium.
The tab was picked by the toiling taxpayer.
There was drama as Vivian’s husband and personal coach, along with one
of the team’s coaches and doctor were locked out of the Olympic
Village by the NOCK team led by executive officer Stephen arap Soi and
general team manager James Chacha, leaving Vivian, our red-hot medal
hope, in tears.
Vivian was shattered and it was hardly surprising that she failed to
pick herself up and take the battle to Tirunesh Dibaba.
This didn’t bother Soi and his team who have misused the trust
bestowed upon them by NOCK chairman, our legend Kipchoge Keino, who,
as a respected member of the International Olympic Committee, is
playing multiple roles here, delegating the management of Team Kenya
to Soi, Chacha and company.
Personal wars
Vivian’s loss on Day One should have fired a wake-up call, but rather
than address the issue, Soi and company continued with their personal
wars with Athletics Kenya, declaring the AK chairman, Isaiah Kiplagat,
persona non grata at the Olympic Village.
As the selfish turf wars continued, we lost the men’s 10,000m, where
Wilson Kiprop, winner of the controversial trials in Oregon, pulled
out with an injury that the Team Kenya officials knew about at the
Kasarani camp but failed to address. What a shame!
AK’s decision to hold the trials in Oregon will seriously be
questioned, as will Soi’s decision to lock out one of the team’s
medics while knowing that some of the athletes, like steeplechaser
Lydia Rotich, who is asthmatic, needed round the clock, personal
medical attention.
Journalists critical of Soi and the NOCK management team have been
declared unwanted guests at the Olympic Village, Soi’s team eager to
sweep the management rot under the carpet as medals continue to,
painfully, slip away from our grasp.
Many joyriders
The issue of joyriders in Team Kenya hasn’t been addressed, while the
rather unprofessional manner in which distribution of training and
competition kit has been managed here continues to irk the athletes,
with some of them, like swimmers Jason and David Dunford, taking no
chances and purchasing their own strip.
As things stand here, Kenyans should be prepared for the worst, unless
Prime Minister Raila Odinga, here for the final days of the Games,
works out wonders to lift the dying Kenyan spirit.
Unless this happens, I can only predict just three more gold medals
from Pamela Jelimo (800m), David Rudisha (800m) and Wilson Kipsang
(marathon).
Forget about the women’s 5,000m, men’s 5,000m or even women’s 1,500m
where the gold medals belong to Tirunesh Dibaba, Dejen Gebremeskel and
Fantou Magiso, all of Ethiopia, respectively.
No personalised training
Unless the Prime Minister cracks the whip, and unless we see the backs
of the NOCK officials who have seriously let the athletes and the
country down, we should not expect sporting glory to come any time
soon.
The issue of pre-Games training, lack of focus by AK’s top management
and the absence of personalised training for our athletes are issues
we will tackle another day.
Meanwhile, we await the report of the Parliamentary team investigating
similar mismanagement of the Kenyan team at the last All Africa Games
in Maputo where the same officials are implicated. Will we ever learn?
Source: Anonymous tweet from London
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