Kenya's athletics coach happy with Beijing team
29/8/2008 17:28
Kenya's national athletics coach, Julius Kirwa, has expressed his
happiness with the Olympics team which returned from Beijing this week, saying
he led to Kenya's most successful medal haul.
"I am very pleased with the
athletes and what they achieved. I want to thank Kenyans for the prayers and
support they gave them," the veteran coach was quoted by a local daily, the
Standard, as saying today.
"This group did as they were told and the training
program that took us to Athi River, Ngongand Kilimambogo helped to muster the
conditions in China," said Kirwa who spearheaded the country's spectacular show
at the Beijing Olympics that returned five gold, five silver and four bronze
medals said.
After Kenya's worst showing at the 2003 World Cross in Lausanne
where the country lost the overall team title to Ethiopia for the first time in
15 years, Kirwa, was appointed to restore pride.
"We worked as a team and I
am pleased all went as planned," he noted paying homage to his assistants Peter
Mathu, David Letting and James Mutisya.
Xinhua
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