{"id":219895,"date":"2026-01-10T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-noc-k-pledges-broader-athlete-support-as-kenya-begins-road-to-la-2028\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:34:50","slug":"kenya-noc-k-pledges-broader-athlete-support-as-kenya-begins-road-to-la-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-noc-k-pledges-broader-athlete-support-as-kenya-begins-road-to-la-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Noc-K Pledges Broader Athlete Support As Kenya Begins Road to LA 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Kenyan athletes across all disciplines as preparations for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games gather momentum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Speaking during the awarding of Olympic Solidarity Scholarships, NOC-K President Shadrack Maluki congratulated the beneficiaries, describing the scholarships as a critical step in shaping Kenya&#8217;s pathway to LA 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Maluki noted that the scholarships go beyond recognition, serving as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090514.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Kenyan athletes across all disciplines as preparations for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games gather momentum. Speaking during the awarding of Olympic Solidarity Scholarships, NOC-K President Shadrack Maluki congratulated the beneficiaries, describing the scholarships as a critical step in shaping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":219896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,19781,8082,23123,4688,430,257,15406,7287,7414,254,6096],"class_list":["post-219895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-athlete","tag-begins","tag-broader","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nock","tag-pledges","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/219895","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=219895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}