Sea shore Volleyball Novices Kenya Out To Make Big Name At Tokyo Olympics
NAIROBI, July 21 (Xinhua) - A month won't have passed since the Kenyan ladies sea shore volleyball group of four qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the last group activity section from the east African country to book their pass to Japan, before they are tossed to the profound finish of rivalry.
The Kenyan pair of Brackcides Agala and Gaudencia Makokha faces a rite of passage on July 26 when they open their Tokyo 2020 mission against award top choices Rebecca Cavalcanti Barbosa Silva and Ana Patricia Ramos of Brazil.
Partners Phoscah Kasisi and Yvonne Wavinya will make their Tokyo 2020 bow in Kenya's second Pool D conflict against USA's Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil on July 29. 토토사이트
Kenya punched their pass to Japan when Agala and Makokha beat Nigeria's pair of Amarchi Uchechukwu and Francisca Ikhiede 2-1 (17-21, 21-18, 15-10).
Kasisi and Wavinya then, at that point quieted the team of Albertina Francis and Tochukwu Nnoruga 2-0 (21-17, 21-10) as Kenyan won the Africa Continental Cup Olympic qualifiers in Agadir, Morocco on June 28.
Talking from their camp in Japan on Tuesday, Agala, a previous long-serving skipper of the ladies' volleyball crew Malkia Strikers, who are additionally in Tokyo, accepts they will give a decent record of themselves in a pool that likewise includes Latvia notwithstanding being the huge competition dark horses.
Kenya will be included in the Olympics sea shore volleyball competition interestingly since the game was presented at the Summer Games at Atlanta 1996.
Their way to Tokyo was accomplished with coarseness just as a portion of favorable luck en route.
To begin with, the Kenyan young ladies resisted all chances to stagger has Morocco in a throbbing semi-last while Nigeria endured after African stalwart Egypt was excluded after a portion of the agents tried positive for COVID-19.
Sea shore volleyball is certainly not a created sport in Kenya with the Tokyo 2020 group of four a model, changing from the indoor game to the game. They are presently anxious to cause a name in Japan to propel the nation to accept the sea shore form of the game going ahead.
There will be 24 men's groups and 24 ladies' groups contending at the Tokyo 2020 Games.