The first batch of Kenyan athletes heading to the Olympics departed from their camp at the Moi International Sports centre Kasarani for the Jomo Kenyatta international airport in a colourful convoy escorted by patriotic Kenyans and various corporate. It was during that flag off that citizen TV discovered that the opposition to NOC-K's Bristol camp proposal may have come from other athletics stakeholders who had received a competing offer from another prominent English city to host team Kenya. Waihiga Mwaura has more.

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