Former Kenya head coach Mike Kosgei is to work with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help develop distance runners in Mozambique.
"We are sending Kosgei to Mozambique to help them develop middle and long distance talent for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing," National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) chairman Kipchoge Keino said on Friday.
"He will be working for IOC under the Olympic Solidarity Programme and after identifying talented middle and long distance runners there he will bring them to the high performance training centre in Eldoret to prepare them for the Beijing Olympics," said Keino, a double Olympic gold medallist.
"It is exciting to take responsibility for a country identified with just a couple of 800 metre runners, among them, former Olympic champion Maria Mutola," Kosgei said. "Four years is enough time to shoulder such responsibility and I hope for
the best."
Agencies