Nairobi — The Olympic Video games will ‘start correct’ for Crew Kenya in Paris on Friday afternoon, with monitor and area competitions commencing on the iconic Stade de France within the French capital.
Already, Shujaa had graced the stadium in rugby sevens final week, ending ninth, whereas the ladies’s volleyball staff, Malkia Strikers are already in motion.
On Thursday, walker Samuel Gathimba competed within the 20km race stroll ending twenty second, whereas Judoka Zeddy Cherotich was on the mat within the ladies’s 78kg class, shedding within the first spherical in her Olympics debut.
However now, all eyes will probably be on the tartan monitor on the Stade de France, the place Kenya is anticipated to do effectively and combat for medals, with a possibility for the primary on Friday within the males’s 10,000m.
Capital Sports activities seems to be at what’s in retailer for Crew Kenya on Friday.
1:10pm – Males’s 1500m preliminaries
Kenya’s journey to reclaim the 1500m title it final received in 2008 by way of Asbel Kiprop will start Friday afternoon, with the preliminary races.
Brian Komen, Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Timothy Cheruiyot and teen Reynold Cheruiyot will probably be flying Kenya’s flag.
Komen, a debutant on the Video games will probably be first off in Warmth One, Cheruiyot up subsequent in Two and Reynold in Three. In his final two competitions this season, Cheruiyot has proven indicators of regaining his previous self, having battled accidents for the previous two seasons.
The primary six throughout the road will qualify for the semi-finals.
8:10pm – Girls’s 5,000m Heats
In her quest for a historic double, simply as she did on the World Championships in Budapest final yr, Kenya’s monitor darling Religion Kipyegon will get her marketing campaign off in her ‘non-traditional’ race, the 5,000m.
She heads into the opening warmth with confidence, in a race that she set a world document for final yr, and having recovered effectively from damage to additionally set a world document in her conventional 1500m race, Kipyegon is excessive on confidence.
Perennial rivals, defending champion Sifan Hassan, Gudaf Tsegay (bronze medalist from Tokyo 2020) and Ejgayehu Taye of Ethiopia, can even be competing on this stream in addition to compatriot Margaret Chelimo.
That is anticipated to be essentially the most aggressive Warmth of the race.
World silver medalist, one other prime prospect for Crew Kenya on this race, Beatrice Chebet, will probably be within the second warmth, which has restricted prime competitors.
The primary eight in every warmth will e-book a slot within the last and the Kenyan trio is anticipated to do effectively.
9:10pm -4x400m blended relay
Having certified to the Video games by advantage of rating, Kenya’s 4x400m relay staff will look to make one of the best of their probability.
They are going to line up in a troublesome Warmth One which has powerhouses Jamaica, USA and Poland. The primary three finishers in every warmth qualify for the ultimate the place they are going to be joined by the 2 quickest fourth positioned groups throughout each heats.
Kenya’s staff includes of Mercy Chebet, David Sanayek, Veronica Mutua and the skilled Boniface Mweresa.
9:45pm – Girls’s 800m
World champion Mary Moraa will get her quest for an Olympic gold began on Friday evening when she weapons off with the heats.
The dancing queen begins off in Warmth 5, the place she has the quickest time this season, and is anticipated to typically do effectively. Kenya’s different two representatives, debutants Lilian Odira and Vibian Chebet compete in warmth six and three respectively.
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11:20pm – Males’s 10,000m last
The late Naftali Temu was the final Kenyan athlete to win gold within the males’s 10,000m on the Olympic Video games, and this was manner again in 1968.
Kenya has struggled to have even two faces on the rostrum on this race and one of the best outcomes have come off present Nationwide Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) president Paul Tergat who has a pair of silver medals from 1996 and 2000 whereas Paul Tanui additionally received the identical colour in Rio 2016.
Daniel Mateiko, Nicholas Kipkorir and Bernard Kibet could have the powerful process of ending Kenya’s 56 yr look ahead to a gold medal within the 25-lap race.
They are going to have a stacked area to compete with, as all three medalists from Tokyo 2020; defending champion Selemon Barega, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo, will all be within the line up.
