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Last updated 1 month ago | By Ernest Ndunda
Naomi Too training in Mombasa in 2019. [File, Standard]
National women beach volleyball team coach Sammy Mulinge is hoping to have the services of experienced Naomi Too for the Olympics qualifiers.
Too, who plays for Kenya Pipeline picked a knee injury on November 22, 2019 during the national league play-offs at Kasarani and has been out of action since then.
The injury saw the 2019 All Africa Games beach volleyball silver medalist Too who partnered with Gaudencia Makokha sidelined for the Africa Olympic qualifiers round one held in Dar-Es-Salaam, January 2020.
The injury forced her to be hospitalised but she has since been discharged and started physiotherapy and light gymnasium work.
Kenya occupy the top position in Africa owing to their qualification to the postponed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo after outsmarting Cameroon in January, a few months before the Covid-19 pandemic threw the sports’ calendar in disarray.
Malkia Strikers reclaimed their reputation as Africa’s top dog in volleyball after bagging the sole Games ticket reserved for the African countries.
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Kenya turned the tables on Cameroon during the qualifiers this year after Cameroon denied them a chance to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics.