Kenya, which came top of
the medals table at the World Championships in Beijing this summer, will not be
represented at the IPC World Athletics Championships, which has started today
in the Qatari capital Doha.
Kenyan
para-athletes were reportedly only told last Wednesday that the
government did not have enough money to fund their participation at the
championships:
"It is unfair for
the Paralympic team because the able-bodied team had the World Champs
in Beijing, and the government supported them 100%, but when it comes
to the para-athletes they really don’t care," President of the Kenya
National Paralympic Committee, Agnes Oluoch, told the BBC's Newsday programme.
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