Mutai to replace Mosop in the Marathon team

With 45 days to the Olympics, 2011 London Marathon winner Emmanuel Mutai will replace Moses Mosop in the men’s marathon team. Mosop the 2011 Chicago Marathon Champion will miss the trip to the London due to an Achilles tendon injury.

Mutai who was acting as a standby runner is the reigning World Marathon Major champion and will join compatriots Abel Kiprui and Wilson Kipsang  in the men’s marathon squad. Athletics Kenya will select the Kenyan team to the Olympics on 23^nd June.

In other news, Kenya Polytechnic ladies basketball team mourns Diana Akinyi who died in the collapsed building in Mlolongo on Saturday. 

RIP Diana Akinyi.