Kenya bars students from foreign competition
Friday February 17, 2012 07:54:31 PM,
IANS
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Nairobi: Athletics
Kenya (AK) wants to bar school athletes from taking part in
international competitions this year -- because they are scoring
poorly academically.
Chairman Isaiah Kiplagat said Athletics Kenya was discussing with
the government measures to stem poor results posted by athletes.
"We want to stress the issue of education because looking at the (recent)results,
most athletes performed extremely poorly. That is a trend we do
not want to see," Xinhua quoted Kiplagat as saying.
"We would like to see our athletes excelling in their education as
well as winning medals.
"The future is more important than winning medals and history will
judge us harshly if we do not give the matter due consideration,"
he added.
If the proposal is implemented, events such as world junior, world
youth, Diamond League and other IAAF Permit events on track that
fall in the second term of the Kenyan school calendar would be
affected.
Some of the top junior runners who competed last year ahead of
their final exams include world youth 800m record holder and
champion Leonard Kirwa Konsecha and World Cross women junior gold
medallist Faith Chepng'etich.
Kiplagat said Kenya would bid to host the 2020 world junior or
2019 world youth championships if the government gives the go
ahead.
He said plans were in place to ensure all athletes who are
travelling to compete outside the country do so only with
clearance from the federation.
"I'm appealing to all embassies to issue visas to runners only
when they have a letter (from us).
"Cases where our athletes are being deported are on the rise, and
so far we have lost two runners who left here without our
knowledge," he said.
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