After picking all available athletics trophies in Machakos, Uasin Gishu County team promises to tear the tracks as 2018 Kicosca games drift to Kisii County.
This year's games go down in Gusii Stadium from August 12-19, thereafter teams seeded to compete in East Africa Games later on this year.
The County's Sports Officer and athletics coach, David Letting, has a lot of optimism on this year's team.
"Today, we held the athletics trials and realized great runs and fast times in the event," said Letting on Wednesday.
"The trials were a team selection exercise. Some athletes had not run for a while but still managed to do good runs, this offers a big promise even as we embark on serious training,” he added.
At the trials at the 64 stadium in Eldoret town, two and three fastest finishers were selected for sprints and distance running respectively.
The ‘champions’ as Uasin Gishu team is popularly known managed to stage a humiliation on other 30 counties, grabbing several athletics trophies, literally sparing none as Machakos hosted the 2017 edition of the inter-counties games.
For a county that prides itself as the ‘City of Champions’ by virtue of being home to 90 per cent of Kenya's world-beating athletes, Uasin Gishu will have to live up to the billing after setting the par in Machakos last year.
"After that quality performance in Machakos, Uasin Gishu have a chance to show their competitors that it rightfully deserves the champions tag," a county's communication officer and a print sports journalist, says.
In Machakos, Uasin Gishu eloped with seven trophies, two golds being silverware through unrivalled might in athletics and volleyball.
The team embarks on serious training as from Monday, for slightly over 10 days to the games, according to coach Letting.
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