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Benson Gicharu

Akhasamba, ex-boxers speak on Kenya’s boxing decline, offer solutions

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Kenya’s 2010 Commonwealth Games flyweight boxing silver medallist Benson Gicharu during a training session. 

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

By  Ayumba Ayodi

Correspondent

NMG Sport

Kenya’s failure to send a single boxer to the Olympic Games for the first time in 60 years has sent shockwaves in the local boxing fraternity.

Retired boxers and coaches have weighed in, terming it “a nightmare” that the country will take long to recover from.

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