I found
this allAfrica.com article to be an interesting one. The author is trying to make the argument that Kenya should bring more science, in the form of theraputic exercise science and their process of selecting teams for championship events, in order to return Kenya to dominance in those events.
However, I found some quotes interesting that suggest what Kenya really needs is to return to what it was doing before: national training camps where the athletes go through a grueling training regimine under the close guidance of top level coaches.
However, in the old days, Kenyans used to get round this by running a closely monitored training and coaching programme that was spartan in its facilities and approach but highly effective. This was the method that generated so many athletes within our Armed Forces.
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Surprisingly the country that seems to have benefited most from Kenya's old-style approach is Ethiopia which runs a very closely monitored camp, as spartan as that word could mean. So are Kenyans paying the price for progress?
