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Article: Kenyan runners seek Beijing Olympic tickets at national trials
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 3, 2008
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Kenyan runners seek Beijing Olympic tickets at national trials
NAIROBI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan runners are on Friday expected
to battle for a place at next month's Olympic Games which will be
held in Beijing, China.
The two-day national athletics trials to be held in Nairobi will
be used by the Athletics Kenya (AK) to select the Olympics team to
represent the country at the Games.
Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion, Ezekiel Kemboi, begins his
title defense by fighting for a place in the Kenya squad for Beijing
in a potent field of 23 runners at the trials that start on Friday.
Also to compete in the national trials will be former world
indoor 800 metres champion, Wilfred Bungei who ...