This archive report was first published on 20 June 2021.
On June 20th, 2021, the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage and Olympics Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Moi International Sports Centre Kasarani, marking a significant step towards a successful Kenyan athletes' participation in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The MOU aims to smoothen the roles of the two entities, ensuring a smooth and well-defined cooperation and collaboration between the National Olympics body and the Ministry.
As part of the promise made by the Ministry to make all processes, systems, and structures transparent and collaborative, the Government has fully funded the preparations, including the Qualifications process and eventual participation of Team Kenya at the prestigious quadrennial global sports extravaganza in Tokyo.
‘This is being done as part of the promise we made when we moved into the Ministry, that we are going to make all our processes, systems and all structure put in place, transparent & collaborative, and to make sure that there is a clarity of roles,’’ said Sports CS Amb. Dr. Amina Mohamed.
Kenya has already picked its athletics team following the conclusion of the three-day Olympic games trials at Moi Kasarani Stadium on Saturday. A total of 41 athletes will represent Kenya at the games, along with Rugby sevens men’s and women’s teams and the national women’s volleyball team, Malkia strikers.
