{"id":230067,"date":"2026-04-11T01:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-athletics-legend-treated-to-game-drive-ahead-of-guest-appearance-at-soya-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:54:16","slug":"kenya-athletics-legend-treated-to-game-drive-ahead-of-guest-appearance-at-soya-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-athletics-legend-treated-to-game-drive-ahead-of-guest-appearance-at-soya-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Athletics Legend Treated to Game Drive Ahead of Guest Appearance At SOYA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, April 10, 2026 &#8211; The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) on Friday hosted Ethiopian marathon legend and two-time Olympic 10,000m champion, Haile Gebrselassie, on a special familiarisation trip to the Nairobi National Park, ahead of the 22nd edition of the Sports Personality of the Year Awards (SOYA), set for this evening at the Uhuru Gardens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Gebrselassie, who is in the country as the chief guest of the awards, was accompanied by his long-time rival and friend, Kenyan athletics icon and SOYA&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100397.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, Kenya, April 10, 2026 &#8211; The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) on Friday hosted Ethiopian marathon legend and two-time Olympic 10,000m champion, Haile Gebrselassie, on a special familiarisation trip to the Nairobi National Park, ahead of the 22nd edition of the Sports Personality of the Year Awards (SOYA), set for this evening at the Uhuru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230068,"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":[258,256,7019,12083,7977,6526,13716,8500,7205,4688,430,22212,257,254,25977,11736],"class_list":["post-230067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-appearance","tag-athletics","tag-awards","tag-drive","tag-game","tag-guest","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-legend","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-soya","tag-treated"],"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\/230067","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=230067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}