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Nairobi \u2014 Long billed as the precursor to the Olympics, the past weekend’s national trials for the quadrennial games indeed lived up to expectations.<\/em><\/p>\n It was always expected to be a high octane event where every athlete was out to realise their Olympics dreams.<\/p>\n Rarely has one seen so many elite runners – the cr\u00e8me-de-la-cr\u00e8me – coalesced in one place united by a common purpose of booking their tickets to the Paris Games.<\/p>\n Just like the Fifa World Cup and the Olympics, the national trials…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 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 cr\u00e8me-de-la-cr\u00e8me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":174740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,9191,11680,48807,6687,257,12022,19457,254,14958],"class_list":["post-174739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-live","tag-mini","tag-moniker","tag-national","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-pictures","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trials"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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