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Kenya\u2019s top cyclists led by the number one rider Nancy Akinyi will race for individual glory at the national mountain bike and cross-country cycling championships set to take place at Karura Forest on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n The race is a landmark event as Kenya becomes just the second country in Zone 5 to have a points-earning national championship under the international Union of Cycling .<\/p>\n Riders with UCI licences will get one of their best opportunities to score big international points in what\u2019s set to be a thrilling contest.<\/p>\n 82 cyclist from across various clubs in the country have been invited to battle it out at the National Mountain bike and Cross-country cycling event which will take place at Karura Forest.<\/p>\n Riders licenced under the International Cycling Union, the UCI, will be eligible to collect valuable points to help them earn a place at this year\u2019s Paris Olympic Games.<\/p>\n Five Kenyan riders led by Nancy Akinyi are in contention to qualify for the Olympic games from Africa but they face fierce competition from Morocco,Mauritius, South Africa and Namibia.<\/p>\n The Kenya Cycling Federation chairman Julius Mwangi however believes that Kenya stands a strong chance to qualify for the games on both the Cross country and Mountain bike events.<\/p>\n The Kenyan riders will be heading to other qualifying events in Morocco and the Czech republic after the national event in an attempt to make the cut .<\/p>\n A home UCI race is of significant importance to local riders\u2019 chances to qualify for Paris; the race, therefore, opens up new opportunities for cyclists looking to reach the pinnacle of the sport.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Kenyan riders ready for National Mountain bike and cross country at Karura<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Kenya\u2019s top cyclists led by the number one rider Nancy Akinyi will race for individual glory at the national mountain bike and cross-country cycling championships set to take place at Karura Forest on Saturday. The race is a landmark event as Kenya becomes just the second country in Zone 5 to have a points-earning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}