Kenya: In Pictures – National Trials Live Up to Mini Olympics Moniker

Nairobi — Long billed as the precursor to the Olympics, the past weekend’s national trials for the quadrennial games indeed lived up to expectations.

It was always expected to be a high octane event where every athlete was out to realise their Olympics dreams.

Rarely has one seen so many elite runners – the crème-de-la-crème – coalesced in one place united by a common purpose of booking their tickets to the Paris Games.

Just like the Fifa World Cup and the Olympics, the national trials…