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Kenyan Boxing Skipper Nick Okoth [photo courtesy]
Kenya’s boxing team, the hit squad has been in training from December 2020. The team is looking to qualify more boxers to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic game in the next qualifiers to be held in June in Paris France.
In the Africa qualifiers in 2020, two boxers, Nick Okoth and Christine Ongare punched their tickets to the games. Christine will be looking at bettering her 2018 Commonwealth games featherweight performance where she won a bronze medal despite a shoulder injury.
Nick Okoth who is the captain of the team, will be making a second appearance at the Olympic games after his debut in 2008 in Beijing, China. He lost in the first round to Arturo Santos Reyes.
Sunday, 24 January 2021
Kenyan athletes will enjoy major financial support through to the Paris 2024 Games thanks to a new partnership between their National Olympic Committee (NOC-K) and the Kenya Charity Sweepstake (KCS).
The contract - signed by the President of NOC-K, Paul Tergat, and the chief executive of Kenya Charity Sweepstake, Yaron Farachi - will see NOC-K receive 10 per cent of the net games revenues from KCS from this year until 2024.
Team Kenya will in the meantime use a cheque for KES10 million (£66,500/€74,700/$91,000) presented by Sweepstake officials at the ceremony towards preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Games that have been rescheduled for this summer.