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WORLD U18

Standard Gauge Railway Launch (May 21,
2017)

MOMBASA, Wednesday, May 31 – e business of
those from the Local Organizing Committee who
rode on the President Uhuru Kenyatta’s inaugu-
ral trip on the Standard Gauge Railway [SGR] train
from Miritini, Mombasa to Syokimau, Nairobi on
Wednesday was to engage with travelers about what
they knew about the forthcoming IAAF World U18
KYEB
Championships in Nairobi on July 12-16, the biggest
sporting event Kenya has ever hosted.
There is hardly a Kenyan who may not know
something about and appreciate the performance
of Kenyan athletes on the international stage. ey
know the formation of this greatness is the children
and youth in schools and at junior sporting cham-
pionships round the country.
They’ve heard of the International Association
of Athletics Federations [IAAF] World Under 18
Championships to be held at Kasarani and wish the
country will do well, or in fact come out as the best
among about 141 countries and about 2,000 ath-
letes that will attend at the Moi International Sports
Centre, Kasarani and stay at the Athletes Village in
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Kenyatta University.
To many on the inaugural SGR ride on Wednesday
it was a huge co-incidence that the historic launch
of the biggest development project that the country
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has ever undertaken should come literally at the same
time with the WU18 Championships.
Because he was fasting and unlike others not busy
engaged in the massive eating, drinking and merry
making on the train on the train, the appropriately
named [given the Islam religious period] Ramadhan
Divayu Babisan from Tana River became the choice
of many interviewers from ‘Capital Fm’, ‘Nation
Media Group’, etc, and his opinions about the SGR
were instantly widely circulated.

Promoting the WU18 Champions on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR)
launch (top and bottom) and among cultural dancers (middle) during
the Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association national games at
Shimo la Tewa, Mombasa

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