{"id":221973,"date":"2026-01-26T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ak-abandon-plans-for-world-indoor-trials-what-next-for-team-kenya\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:12:00","slug":"kenya-ak-abandon-plans-for-world-indoor-trials-what-next-for-team-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ak-abandon-plans-for-world-indoor-trials-what-next-for-team-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ak Abandon Plans for World Indoor Trials, What Next for Team Kenya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Athletics Kenya (AK) have shelved plans for national trials for the World Indoor Championships that were initially scheduled for the weekend (January 30-31).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">In a statement, the federation said they will now select the team via a merit-based and time-based process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">&#8220;In light of this development, Athletics Kenya will proceed with the selection of athletes who will represent the country at the World Athletics Indoor Championships scheduled for March 20-22, 2026 in Poland, through a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260524.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 Athletics Kenya (AK) have shelved plans for national trials for the World Indoor Championships that were initially scheduled for the weekend (January 30-31). In a statement, the federation said they will now select the team via a merit-based and time-based process. &#8220;In light of this development, Athletics Kenya will proceed with the selection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":221974,"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":[9192,258,256,13991,4688,430,257,5212,254,7142,14958,5093],"class_list":["post-221973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abandon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-indoor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-plans","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-trials","tag-world"],"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\/221973","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=221973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}