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Offi cial Press Conference Social Events

e offi cial press conference will be held on 11 July Opening Ceremony
2017 at 11:00.
e opening ceremony will take place on 12 July 2017,
LOC will organise media shuttle service from the from 15:45 to 16:30, at the Stadium. All accredited
media hotel to Offi cial Press conference. media are kindly invited.

Press Conferences IAAF/LOC News Service

KYEB
ere is no press conference planned following the
LOC and IAAF will provide comprehensive news
fi nals. A press conference will be organised in case
service aimed at achieving an excellent working
of special results/events. Media will be informed
conditions for media representatives.
about press conferences timingly.
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ing on their clothes infi eld and must be dressed in
pionships
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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Photographers Facilities
ere will be a number of seats equipped with LAN Moi international sports center, kasarani
e Moi International Sports Centre (MISC), Kasarani,
KENYA YEARBO0K
connection reserved for photographers in the Media
is the largest stadium in Kenya. e 60,000-seater
Centre.
Kasarani Stadium was built by the Chinese as a grant
to Kenya govern-ment who completed it in 1987.
Photographers’ Briefi ng
It hosted the 4th All African Games, largest multi-
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disciplinary event ever held in this country. It is well-
The photographers’ briefing will take place on 11
equipped for sports such as track and fi eld, football,
July 2017 at 15:00 in the Media Centre. Attendance
basketball, tennis, swimming and volleyball etc.
at this meeting is mandatory. e photo bibs will be
distributed at the end of the photographers‘ briefi ng. e stadium is one of the most enduring and visible
legacies of Kenya’s second president, Daniel Arap
A KSH 2,300/ EUR 20 deposit is required in order to Moi’s administration to the youth of this country.
collect the bib, refundable on return at the end of the It was built to enable Kenya host the continental
WU18 Championships. sports competition, during its most diffi cult period.
Photographers’ Positions No African country was willing to host the games, at
a time when corporate sponsorship had not become a
Infi eld: e number of photographers allowed onto novelty in modern sports, meaning governments had
the infi eld during the competition is very limited. to foot all the fi nancial de-mands of their organiza-
Each infi eld photographer will be provided with a tion, running into millions of shillings, something
photographers’ bib. 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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