The National Olympic Committee of Kenya has picked Kurume City, an inland town on Japan’s Kyushu Island to be the training base for the national team that will represent the country in next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo Japan.
This is after the National Olympic Committee of Kenya and Kurume City of Japan entered into a two years partnership that will be officially sealed in February next year.
The Kenyan team to the Olympic Games will report to the training base in May next year.
Kenya plans to send about 200 athletes to compete in the Games to be held from the 24th of July to 6th August next year.
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At least 45 athletes have already qualified for the Olympic Games consisting of two swimmers, 28 track and field athletes and the national rugby men and women teams.
