#EK – ALL IS NOT WELL AT TEAM KENYA CAMP…
#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
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?
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Here is the tweet http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/TalkUp/NOCK+officials+must+take+the++cane+for... 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?
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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...
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?
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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.
Javelin is still athletics. Fields athletics
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.
++1
A lot of talent remain untapped. Like me for example.I can throw the hammer :) and shooting. Lets tap Talent from Isinya to Isiolo, from Lamu to Langata, Kakuma to Kakamega, Embu to Eldoret, Mombasa to Moyale, Mumias to Murang'a
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?
Sports tourism is not bad for us. We should actually tap into it. You can actually create a sports resort and tap foreign talent to bring the much lauded "foreign exchange".
My 2 cents
+6 = 8cents (pesa nane)
Solomon
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Patriotism does not pay the bills, money is the biggest motivator for our athletes, the more we put on the table, the better the quality of their performance. regards Joyce t 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.
Javelin is still athletics. Fields athletics
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.
++1
A lot of talent remain untapped. Like me for example.I can throw the hammer :) and shooting.
Lets tap Talent from Isinya to Isiolo, from Lamu to Langata, Kakuma to Kakamega, Embu to Eldoret, Mombasa to Moyale, Mumias to Murang'a
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?
Sports tourism is not bad for us. We should actually tap into it. You can actually create a sports resort and tap foreign talent to bring the much lauded "foreign exchange".
My 2 cents
+6 = 8cents (pesa nane)
Solomon
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Joyce lukwiya has just proved that she may have not participated in any competitive sport. Winning in sports is first physiological , before you start running or kicking that ball. The officials would have even proposed to have 1 month in Bristol , to maximize their allowances...and some have been caught on camera with concubines ( not even wives). If there is a place full of vultures, it's the sports department..no one cares for volleyball that has little allowances, athletics and football they mess again again and again N wonder I am in the campaign full time - Kicking the vultures hard "former Competitive lawn tennis player" From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Joyce Lukwiya Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 6:43 PM To: Skunkworks Mailing List Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] #EK - ALL IS NOT WELL AT TEAM KENYA CAMP. Patriotism does not pay the bills, money is the biggest motivator for our athletes, the more we put on the table, the better the quality of their performance. regards Joyce t 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. Javelin is still athletics. Fields athletics 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. ++1 A lot of talent remain untapped. Like me for example.I can throw the hammer :) and shooting. Lets tap Talent from Isinya to Isiolo, from Lamu to Langata, Kakuma to Kakamega, Embu to Eldoret, Mombasa to Moyale, Mumias to Murang'a 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? Sports tourism is not bad for us. We should actually tap into it. You can actually create a sports resort and tap foreign talent to bring the much lauded "foreign exchange". My 2 cents +6 = 8cents (pesa nane) Solomon -- ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva For Business Development Transworld Computer Channels Cel: 0722402248 twitter.com/lordmwesh transworldAfrica.com | Fluent in computing kenya.or.ke | The Kenya we know _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24 <http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94> &t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke -- Joyce Lukwiya P.O Box 40402 00100 Nairobi
I am liking the comments here. but what can we do really. Its such a sad affair that our most important things like sports are controlled by careless, selfish and uncouth groups of people. We know from our primary school games that, we have guys who can do field events to match if not better than what we have seen in London this time. My 2 cents, I believe sports need to be run by management professionals not necessarily ex-Olympians. People who are accountable and whom we will take such responsibility with vigor to deliver. How this would happen am not sure but this needs to be taken as a serious business just like any other business. What do you think people. Oliver On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Oscar : Tech Stuff " Love for Tech" <techstuff@transtech.co.ke> wrote:
Joyce lukwiya has just proved that she may have not participated in any competitive sport.
Winning in sports is first physiological , before you start running or kicking that ball.
The officials would have even proposed to have 1 month in Bristol , to maximize their allowances…..and some have been caught on camera with concubines ( not even wives).
If there is a place full of vultures, it’s the sports department….no one cares for volleyball that has little allowances, athletics and football they mess again again and again
N wonder I am in the campaign full time – Kicking the vultures hard
“former Competitive lawn tennis player”
From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Joyce Lukwiya Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 6:43 PM To: Skunkworks Mailing List Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] #EK – ALL IS NOT WELL AT TEAM KENYA CAMP…
Patriotism does not pay the bills, money is the biggest motivator for our athletes, the more we put on the table, the better the quality of their performance.
regards
Joyce
t 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.
Javelin is still athletics. Fields athletics
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.
++1
A lot of talent remain untapped. Like me for example.I can throw the hammer :) and shooting.
Lets tap Talent from Isinya to Isiolo, from Lamu to Langata, Kakuma to Kakamega, Embu to Eldoret, Mombasa to Moyale, Mumias to Murang'a
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?
Sports tourism is not bad for us. We should actually tap into it. You can actually create a sports resort and tap foreign talent to bring the much lauded "foreign exchange".
My 2 cents
+6 = 8cents (pesa nane)
Solomon
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Joyce Lukwiya -
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Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau