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Nairobi \u2014 Kipchoge Keino Stadium in Eldoret, the heart of the “City of Champions,” was a forgotten and neglected space for many years. What should have been a cradle for elite athletics had been reduced to a grazing field and a place where residents dried maize.<\/em><\/p>\n In a region globally known for producing world-class long-distance runners, the absence of a functional facility forced athletes to travel several kilometres to Iten for training.<\/p>\n The ongoing rehabilitation of the stadium is not only…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Kipchoge Keino Stadium in Eldoret, the heart of the “City of Champions,” was a forgotten and neglected space for many years. What should have been a cradle for elite athletics had been reduced to a grazing field and a place where residents dried maize. In a region globally known for producing world-class long-distance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":231136,"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":[258,256,35908,4688,430,10210,257,6916,254,9328,25460,29426,6498],"class_list":["post-231135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-keino","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kipchoge","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium","tag-tribe","tag-unites","tag-workers"],"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\/231135","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=231135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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