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The National rugby sevens team head coach Kevin Wambua says the team is targeting to medal at this year\u2019s Olympic Games in Paris, France after bouncing back in the World Rugby Sevens series.<\/strong><\/p>\n Shujaa returned in the country on Tuesday to a heroic welcome after their feat in Madrid where they beat Germany 33-15 to regain their core status.<\/p>\n Shujaa who have already qualified for the Olympics completed their season\u2019s aim by getting back into the series they were relegated from last season.<\/p>\n Head coach Kevin Wambua who masterminded Kenya\u2019s immediate return to the elite series has now set his eyes on guiding Kenya to a\u00a0 podium finish at this year\u2019s Olympic Games in Paris<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019Most definitely its achievable nothing is impossible.That\u2019s the conversation we will have and see what will help us reach the target\u2019\u2019,remarked Wambua\u2026<\/p>\n After being relegated last year Shujaa had to endure a qualification phase that included participation in the HSBC challenger series and the promotion play off held in Madrid Spain last weekend.<\/p>\n Shujaa successfully went through the qualification phase and beat Germany in the promotion play off to return to the series in 2025.<\/p>\n Meanwhile Sports principal secretary Eng.Peter Tum who led\u00a0 ministry officials in receiving\u00a0 the team\u00a0 has reiterated the government\u2019s commitment to reward the team after its exemplary performance in Madrid.<\/p>\n \u2019\u2019We want to promise here to everyone that the government will continue giving that support that they want\u2019\u2019,noted Tum.<\/p>\n Shujaa now switches its focus to the Olympic Games with the Rugby Sevens scheduled from July 24th-30th this year.<\/p>\n The post Shujaa switches focus to Olympics after World Sevens series return<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The National rugby sevens team head coach Kevin Wambua says the team is targeting to medal at this year\u2019s Olympic Games in Paris, France after bouncing back in the World Rugby Sevens series. Shujaa returned in the country on Tuesday to a heroic welcome after their feat in Madrid where they beat Germany 33-15 […]<\/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-49342","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\/49342","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=49342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}