In London, Kenyans confident of Olympic gold

Kenya was the top performing African team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, winning a total of 14 medals, six of them gold.

But this summer in London, says Gordon Oluoch, Nairobi's Commissioner of Sports, the team expects to best its medal tally of four years ago. Speaking with VOA in front of a big poster of David Rudisha -- world record holder at 800 meters and one the country's favorites for gold -- he says Kenya is offering perhaps its strongest Olympics lineup ever.

“We are fairly confident, but not overconfident, and I think we will do fairly well," he says. "This may be probably our best Olympic outing ever, potentially, judging by the number of gold medals we expect to get."

 Some of that expectation falls directly on Rudisha, captain and flag-bearer for opening ceremonies, who is bidding for...


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