..i salute u.
..u know what ur talking about.
..i 100% agree with u that with proper training Felix Simbu can win us some marathons.
Rio Olympics: Kenya's medal Count
Rio Olympics: Kenya's medal Count
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..i salute u.
..u know what ur talking about.
..i 100% agree with u that with proper training Felix Simbu can win us some marathons.
Muria
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Simbu is very good. Position 5 at those conditions isnt easy. What he needs now is competition from his felow countrymen so as to push his PB to marathon winning times. At least 4 more runners need to step up and compete with him to give TZ a real chance at winning a major race. With the marathon "unapokimbizwa unakimbia zaidi...".
Quickly
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Well done eliud kipchoge. The news is not about him(it was expected! ). It's about the guy in no 5 position. Congrats to him, it's not easy that thing called marathon!!! Hongereni wabongo, mpeni huyo mjamaa zawadi kwa kuenda umbali wa Brazil na kukaribia ushindi. Huyu anaweza kuwatoa jasho wakenya na waethiopia siku za mbele, aongeze bidii.
..there was Kipchoge, then the rest.
..kip was running with so much authority. He was there to win. It that was very impressive to me.
..the other thing that i liked was the BROTHERHOOD among runner which was exhibited after the race.
..kingine ni kwamba it takes time and a lot of work ku train world class marathon talent. USA is a good example of that, wameanza kuonekana kwenye marathon.
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I think its very possible to become number 7 0r 6 or even 5 in the next Olympics or the next one After that
In a perfect day in this Olympics, we could have got
Javeling Gold
1500m men gold
5000m men Silver
Rugby Bronze
Steeplechase Silver and Bronze (Added top the Gold)
400m hurdle Gold (Our best 400m got injured)
Adding that to the official tally the results would have been 9 Gold,8 Silver, 3 Bronze, That would have put us at Number 8 worldwide Behind France and above South Korea. That the number we would have been if everything had gone perfectly for team Kenya in this Olympics. It means If we put good management and invested heavily in sport from now, By the next Olympics we should be able to get a medal(Gold or Silver or Bronze) in Volleyball, Rugby,Boxing 90kg, Swimming butterfly and free style, Walking race.
The comentator said since eastAfricans are good in long distance which requires endurance and stamina, we can do very well in mountain biking and cycling, the only thing holding us back is money, one of those bikes cost a minimum $15,000, therefore if we start building up now, by the 2028 Olympics we should be a serious contender in mountain bike racing, cycling and canoeing(middle and long distance), kayaking, Swimming (both indoor and outdoor), Judo,tykondow , weight lifting, boxing(light weight and heavy weight), Shortput, discuss(if Yego can do it in Javelin, there must be others that can do discuss and hammer throw), 400m, 400m relay.
Now if we properly invest in all those diciplines, by 2028, we can be able to add, on a fair modest day, 7 more gold medals, based on what we got at the just concluded games, We would be having 13gold medals and that would have put us at position 6 where Japan is.
Based on what we ought to have got at the Rio games (9,8,3), add 7 more gold that we should be competing for by 2028, that would put us at atleast 16 Gold on a modest day, that will put us at Position 5 behing the great 4(USA,Russia,China,Britain), then from their we can start working on breaking the barrier and getting into this club because we will still have a long way to go to defeat these 4 countries, A country like US participated in every single discipline and every single competition in these games, Kenyans dont even know what is rhythm gymnastics..... The CS(Minister) incharge of sports should be thinking long term like this so he can formulate policies to implement inorder to achieve these vision and targets, he could know what to introduce in schools sports curriculum so talent naturing can start early, how much it will cost to get there and things like that, schoold that live near rivers and the ocean can also have water rafting or kayaking , outdoor swimming competions........
This is how we get to Vision 2030!!!!! with a bang!,
lakini tukizubaa zubaa hivi, by 2030 we will still watching akina US taking 46 freaking golds, Some of these golds deserve to be shaired to us, there are some very strange games that only few countries compete for, the golds are just there for the taking, like did you know that by the 3rd day, the US had 19 gold medals, 16 of them were from the swimming discipline!
In a perfect day in this Olympics, we could have got
Javeling Gold
1500m men gold
5000m men Silver
Rugby Bronze
Steeplechase Silver and Bronze (Added top the Gold)
400m hurdle Gold (Our best 400m got injured)
Adding that to the official tally the results would have been 9 Gold,8 Silver, 3 Bronze, That would have put us at Number 8 worldwide Behind France and above South Korea. That the number we would have been if everything had gone perfectly for team Kenya in this Olympics. It means If we put good management and invested heavily in sport from now, By the next Olympics we should be able to get a medal(Gold or Silver or Bronze) in Volleyball, Rugby,Boxing 90kg, Swimming butterfly and free style, Walking race.
The comentator said since eastAfricans are good in long distance which requires endurance and stamina, we can do very well in mountain biking and cycling, the only thing holding us back is money, one of those bikes cost a minimum $15,000, therefore if we start building up now, by the 2028 Olympics we should be a serious contender in mountain bike racing, cycling and canoeing(middle and long distance), kayaking, Swimming (both indoor and outdoor), Judo,tykondow , weight lifting, boxing(light weight and heavy weight), Shortput, discuss(if Yego can do it in Javelin, there must be others that can do discuss and hammer throw), 400m, 400m relay.
Now if we properly invest in all those diciplines, by 2028, we can be able to add, on a fair modest day, 7 more gold medals, based on what we got at the just concluded games, We would be having 13gold medals and that would have put us at position 6 where Japan is.
Based on what we ought to have got at the Rio games (9,8,3), add 7 more gold that we should be competing for by 2028, that would put us at atleast 16 Gold on a modest day, that will put us at Position 5 behing the great 4(USA,Russia,China,Britain), then from their we can start working on breaking the barrier and getting into this club because we will still have a long way to go to defeat these 4 countries, A country like US participated in every single discipline and every single competition in these games, Kenyans dont even know what is rhythm gymnastics..... The CS(Minister) incharge of sports should be thinking long term like this so he can formulate policies to implement inorder to achieve these vision and targets, he could know what to introduce in schools sports curriculum so talent naturing can start early, how much it will cost to get there and things like that, schoold that live near rivers and the ocean can also have water rafting or kayaking , outdoor swimming competions........
This is how we get to Vision 2030!!!!! with a bang!,
lakini tukizubaa zubaa hivi, by 2030 we will still watching akina US taking 46 freaking golds, Some of these golds deserve to be shaired to us, there are some very strange games that only few countries compete for, the golds are just there for the taking, like did you know that by the 3rd day, the US had 19 gold medals, 16 of them were from the swimming discipline!
Juakali1980
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I think we have greater chances of winning some medals in boxing,kayaking and canoeing in 2020 than the other events..Luos have been canoeing for a long time..If we establish some elite training schools in canoeing in lets say Homabay or somewhere at the coast and train for 4 yrs straight,I think we can give the wazungus a run for medals in this two sports..The mistreatment of our athletes in RIO SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED AND THE JOY RIDERS WHO WENT OVER THERE TO STEAL SHOULD BE STRIPED AND CANED AT UHURU PARK AND THEN SENT TO JAIL...
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I actually think if we minimised government incompetence in just the sports we participated in we would be much better even without any new investment. The Nigerian team could have missed their flight because of payment issues. PAYMENT ISSUES! Rudisha, Yego etc the same. Just remove corrupt african bureaucracy and most of these guys become the worldbeaters they already are...
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Add Rhythmic swimming and water polo to the list of possibles.
Sincerely, i believe the impetus should not start from the top i. e. gava, but should be a spontaneous thing amongst Kenyan folk. Put plainly, its called building a sporting culture amongst our people. A nation that has no sporting culture has no business bemoaning its lack of success, talk less of seeking glory. For example, look at the long term projects begun by the Australian Institute of sports, to turn Australia into a sporting nation, begun sometime in the 60s. The main aim was to infuse in the people an innate sporting instinct and competitiveness akin to what the ancient Greeks had, hence the ancient Olympics. Yaani turn the people into sports freaks first ....the result is that they have guaranteed world class participants in every sport. The wise say that kelele za chura haimzuii ng'ombe kunywa maji. We should turn every Kenyan into such a "cow" if you can excuse my poor analogy, where we drink all waters at all times. We should be seeing regular, medal serious contenders for the downhill slalom in winter Olympics for example if we took such an approach.
Next approach is to have a program modelled on project management best practices for evaluation of objectives. Specifically we can start SMART analysis of our sporting performance. Every sport and game should be subjected to this analysis. The reason i propose this is that we seem to be making the same mistakes over and over again in some sports e. g soccer where we can't seem to qualify regularly for major tournaments. We can use this Smart analysis to tick off our weaknesses and work on our strengths, all the while knowing what we want within reasonable expectations and in a specific time frame.
Lastly, we should discuss the fact of defeat in sports, and craft a policy or strategy around it. All too often, we work with assumptions that prove false with regards to our prospects in a game, and we may pass down the generations the wrong philosophy as regards dealing with defeat.Thats why we never see repeat appearances in some sporting finals by our teams : they are deflated for good, and that's because someone says the better team won -nonsense!!! The better team on the day wins, and all teams should go out thinking they are the best-period!
Sincerely, i believe the impetus should not start from the top i. e. gava, but should be a spontaneous thing amongst Kenyan folk. Put plainly, its called building a sporting culture amongst our people. A nation that has no sporting culture has no business bemoaning its lack of success, talk less of seeking glory. For example, look at the long term projects begun by the Australian Institute of sports, to turn Australia into a sporting nation, begun sometime in the 60s. The main aim was to infuse in the people an innate sporting instinct and competitiveness akin to what the ancient Greeks had, hence the ancient Olympics. Yaani turn the people into sports freaks first ....the result is that they have guaranteed world class participants in every sport. The wise say that kelele za chura haimzuii ng'ombe kunywa maji. We should turn every Kenyan into such a "cow" if you can excuse my poor analogy, where we drink all waters at all times. We should be seeing regular, medal serious contenders for the downhill slalom in winter Olympics for example if we took such an approach.
Next approach is to have a program modelled on project management best practices for evaluation of objectives. Specifically we can start SMART analysis of our sporting performance. Every sport and game should be subjected to this analysis. The reason i propose this is that we seem to be making the same mistakes over and over again in some sports e. g soccer where we can't seem to qualify regularly for major tournaments. We can use this Smart analysis to tick off our weaknesses and work on our strengths, all the while knowing what we want within reasonable expectations and in a specific time frame.
Lastly, we should discuss the fact of defeat in sports, and craft a policy or strategy around it. All too often, we work with assumptions that prove false with regards to our prospects in a game, and we may pass down the generations the wrong philosophy as regards dealing with defeat.Thats why we never see repeat appearances in some sporting finals by our teams : they are deflated for good, and that's because someone says the better team won -nonsense!!! The better team on the day wins, and all teams should go out thinking they are the best-period!
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He also has a chance of joining other world beaters here in Kenya specifically in Iten where the likes of Mo Farah usually train. It will give him more exposure. We don't have to be admitting strangers from a far distance when our immediate brothers from the south can equally take advantage of the same. Good luck to the young boy.
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We gave them a Potus and now some athletes..hahaha
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Joining the US military as a BLACKMAN..is not worth risking my life for..with cellphone videos of how the police treat their black citizens? Maybe it was their only avenue of becoming Maraia wa Amerika
Juakali1980
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The first person to be honoured at the Rio Olympics was a KENYAN called (KIPCHOGE)...and the last person Honoured was a KENYAN called KIPCHOGE.....A stadium full of 80,000 from all over the world standing still for while our national anthem was being played..that moment was out of this world...
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The police and the army are completely two different institutions, generalizing them like that is abit over the top,
Anyway, its true, they joined the army mostly because you get naturalized more quickly, if they had just applied for US citizenship on their own, it would have taken them atleast 7 years,just in time to miss the 2020 Tokyo olympics. They most likely joined as specialists and will probably never see active combat as they will be representing in other ways, they will probably be training for running all the time...its like expecting to see David Rudisha controling traffic or Julius Yego doing patrol in police cars
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Hongereni wakenya
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Most police officers huko USA are former veterans.And HOMELESS
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