{"id":43074,"date":"2024-11-22T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/?p=43074"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:47:09","slug":"beatrice-chebet-chepsaita-is-a-place-to-start-career-as-organizers-beat-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/beatrice-chebet-chepsaita-is-a-place-to-start-career-as-organizers-beat-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatrice Chebet: Chepsaita is a place to start career as organizers beat target"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Double Olympic Games champion Beatrice Chebet has echoed the efforts made by the organizers of the Great Chepsaita Cross Country Championships set for December 7<sup>th<\/sup> at the Chepsaita ground in Turbo, Uasin Gishu County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_51511\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ocuSUC_wuUY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking today during the press conference, Chebet said that she was happy at the progress made by the organizers in order to improve, not only in athletics and sports but education too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI am happy for the organizers of such event are to motivate and nurture young people\u2019s talents. Apart from running, we also have education that means as a country, we shall produce top whole persons,\u201d said Chebet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race Patron Farouk Kibet has called in corporate world and other sponsors to come on board to build the cross country to benefit locals, who not only from Uasin Gishu county but Nandi, Bungoma, Kakamega and Trans Nzoia counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are calling upon sponsors to come and showcase their services. This race is in the village but we are going to change the environment of the local community not just at the local and we are not going to stop. We are happy that we have reached Golden Label and this is not just running but empowering people,\u201d said Kibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1win.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IWIN-1.png?resize=640%2C160\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IWIN-1.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IWIN-1.png?resize=400%2C100&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IWIN-1.png?resize=768%2C192&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IWIN-1.png?resize=640%2C160&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that their target is to run and improve on education in the area, urging people that if they can education and have talent to take them far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany people see the need to run but not education that is why we have managers manipulating them. We want them to uplift locals and other things in life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Event director Barnaba Korir said that it is a good experience for young people who are motivated to see great athletes talking and competing to them, which shows that when an athlete is focused they will harvest big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet us follow the roots of those who have succeeded in both athletics and education and they can change lives in various ways. The venue has changed and going forward, the event will be better,\u201d said Korir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On athletes registration, he said that in the elite level, they have hit the target. \u201cWe have a better course. We have reached the target of what we wanted the only remaining part are the juniors and old people of 60 and above,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double Olympic Games champion Beatrice Chebet has echoed the efforts made by the organizers of the Great Chepsaita Cross Country Championships set for December 7th at the Chepsaita ground in Turbo, Uasin Gishu County. Speaking today during the press conference, Chebet said that she was happy at the progress made by the organizers in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chepsaita-cross-country.jpg?fit=900%2C452&ssl=1?v=1729460467","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92Nno-bcK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}