The French Embassy in Kenya has wished Ferdinand Omanyala and his teammates the best of luck ahead of their visit to Miramas to prepare for the Olympic Games.
Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala and his coach Geoffrey Kimani paid a courtesy call to the French Embassy in Kenya as preparations ramp up for the Olympic Games in Paris, France.
Team Kenya are scheduled to train at the Miramas Training Camp in France ahead of the global showpiece and preparations are underway to send the team.
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After his visit, the French Embassy shared photos with the Commonwealth Games champion and captioned them: “Kenyan sprint sensation Ferdinand Omanyala and coach all set for Paris Olympic Games.
"The two paid us a courtesy call at the Embassy before heading to Miramas, the city that will host Team Kenya during the games. Good luck in your preparations and we wish you all the best.”
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The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) will be seeking to send the largest number of athletes to this year’s edition of the Olympic Games with the hope of getting a record number of medals.
Athletics Kenya has already named a provisional squad for the men’s and women’s marathon teams and preparations are ramping up for the event.
Meanwhile, World Athletics already revealed the pathway to qualifying for athletics at Paris 2024, including the entry standards athletes will need to achieve during different timeframes.
Individual events apart from the 10,000m, marathon, combined events, and race walks were intended to be qualified from July 1 last year and the window will close on June 30.
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The qualification window for the 10,000m, combined events, race walks and relays started on December 31, 2022, and will also end on June 30, 2024. The qualification window for the marathon began on November 1, 2022, and will end on April 30.
Meanwhile, athletes will be able to qualify in two ways for the Paris 2024 Games, with 50% of qualification places based on achieving the entry standard for an event within the qualification period, and the other 50% based on the World Athletics Ranking within the ranking period.