masukuma wrote:
all these are excuses!! we peg our "unoma" on one off wins.... these are nothing. my thoughts are kenya tries to punch above her weight in everything... spreading ourselves too thin. it's like kenya wants to be the 1st country to industrialise in sports. hao Lesotho una dharau hapo with their 2m people don't do anything else but football. they have very nice hills to run but they don't. they play football in a nutty way similar to the english. it's an extended family affair. same thing to west africans.... the only other countries that do the things we try to do are russia, usa, uk and somtimes sa and australia. we are busy bodies. the reason we rank well in rugby in africa is because we don't have much competition coz to some countries rugby is like croquet.... something white people take stabs off. mara cycling... mara b-ball, mara footballl... don't you know that you are a heavily indebt , poor, corrupt, 3rd world country?
The above bolded sections show how masukuma likes to bare his ignorance for the whole world to see. There are numerous countries even in Africa that do well in multiple sports.
Lets look at
Naija for example. We know they are good in football. But their men and women's basketball teams have also been African champions in the last 10 years. At the 2014 commonwealth games, Naija won 7 gold medals in weightlifting and power lifting.
Naija also excels in sprinting, boxing etc etc
What about
TunisiaThey are excellent at football, do well in rugby. Their mens basketball team were also Africa champions recently. They also have some world class long distance runners like Ghribi. Their women's volleyball team is fairly decent.
I do not have to tell anyone about South Africa which tops Africa in rugby, swimming, tennis, cricket etc and has decent teams in football, athletics, boxing etc.
Now to to South America and you will find that Brazil and Argentina excel in football, basketball, volleyball. Argentina are also world class in rugby.
New Zealand may be known as a rugby nation of only 3 million people but in recent history their football and basketball teams have also qualified for the world cup and done well.
In Europe, countries like Italy and Spain excel at football, basketball, tennis, volleyball, athletics etc. Italy even has a world class rugby team.
Heck you do not have to go far to find countries that do well in multiple sports. Our own neighbours Uganda play football, they are passing in basketball, their rugby team has beaten Kenya on many occassions and they also have some world beating athletes.
So the idea that Kenya is spreadings itsefl too thin is Further evidence of masukuma's penchant for posting ignorant jibber jabber.
And there is nothing wrong with a country of 40 million people playing multiple sports.
Note:
Kenya won only 6 gold medals at the 2015 All Africa games, all from athletics. Egypt won a whopping 85 gold medals, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Algeria all won 30 or more gold medals from a wide variety of sports. So the notion of a country spreading itself too thin as masukuma claims is ridiculous. In fact the opposite might be true.
If Egypt can win 85 gold from various diverse sports, Kenya should aim to win at least 15. It has happened before. Kenya was not always this dependent on athletics. We used to win medals in other sports. In boxing,
Kenya were commonwealth games champions in the 1970s and 80s