NOC-K President Paul Tergat is leading a delegation from Kenya to Miramas City to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for Team Kenya Pre-Games preparations for Paris 2024
The MOU signing will take place in Miramas on February 3, 2023, with the following organizations in the South of France; the Department of Bouches-du-Rhône, Miramas Metropole, and Miramas Athletics Club.
This will be on the sidelines of the World Athletics Indoor Meeting at Stadium Miramas Métropole, where Kenyan athletes will also be participating including African and Commonwealth Champion in 100 meters, Ferdinand Omanyala.
Tergat is accompanied in the mission by NOC-K Secretary General, Francis Mutuku and NOC-K Treasurer, Eliud Kariuki and also joined by Kenya’s Ambassador to France, Prof Judi Wakhungu. The embassy’s role will be critical in providing support to the Kenyan delegation in the run-up to the Olympics.
The NOC-K Executive had initiated discussions with Miramas, the South of France Territory in the City of Marseille early last year and a delegation from either party has done orientation visits, the Miramas team visiting Kenya in December last year to finalize details of the MOU.
The primary objective of this partnership is to benefit individual athletes and teams in their preparation for the 2024 Olympics.
It is expected that local clubs in the South of France will make their facilities and professionals available to Team Kenya to best prepare for the Olympics beginning early this year.
