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e offi cial press conference will be held on 11 July Social events
2017 at 11:00. LOC will organise media shuttle service
from the media hotel to Offi cial Press conference. Opening ceremony

Press conferences e opening ceremony will take place on 12 July 2017,
from 15:45 to 16:30, at the Stadium. All accredited
ere is no press conference planned following the media are kindly invited.
fi nals. A press conference will be organised in case IAAF/LOC news service
of special results/events. Media will be informed
about press conferences timingly. LOC and IAAF will provide comprehensive news
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service aimed at achieving an excellent working
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conditions for media representatives.
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ing on their clothes infi eld and must be dressed in
an appropriate way, as they are often in public and
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TV view. Eating infi eld is strictly forbidden.
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ere will be a number of seats equipped with LAN
connection reserved for photographers in the Media
Centre.
e Moi International Sports Centre (MISC), Kasarani,
Photographers’ briefi ng Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani
is the largest stadium in Kenya. e 60,000-seater
KENYA YEARBO0K
Kasarani Stadium was built by the Chinese as a grant
The photographers’ briefing will take place on 11
to Kenya govern-ment who completed it in 1987.
July 2017 at 15:00 in the Media Centre. Attendance
It hosted the 4th All African Games, largest multi-
at this meeting is mandatory. e photo bibs will be
disciplinary event ever held in this country. It is well-
EDITORIAL BOARD
distributed at the end of the photographers‘ briefi ng.
equipped for sports such as track and fi eld, football,
A KSH 2,300/ EUR 20 deposit is required in order to
basketball, tennis, swimming and volleyball etc.
collect the bib, refundable on return at the end of the
e stadium is one of the most enduring and visible
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legacies of Kenya’s second president, Daniel Arap
Moi’s administration to the youth of this country.
Photographers’ positions It was built to enable Kenya host the continental
sports competition, during its most diffi cult period.
Infi eld: e number of photographers allowed onto
the infi eld during the competition is very limited. No African country was willing to host the games, at
Each infi eld photographer will be provided with a a time when corporate sponsorship had not become a
photographers’ bib. novelty in modern sports, meaning governments had
to foot all the fi nancial de-mands of their organiza-
tion, running into millions of shillings, something
which placed a heavy burden on the tax payer’s
shoulders. is is why the quadrennial games had
no host between 1978 in Algiers, Algeria, to 1987
in Nairobi. Previous games were in Lagos, Nigeria,
in 1973 and the fi rst in 1965 in Brazzaville, Congo.

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