Coach @FlyMenKenya | World Athletics Sprints & Hurdles Lecturer | World Rugby S&C Educator | Lead S&C -Team 🇰🇪 2020 Olympics | 3 x Olympics Coach 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇫🇷
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The developmental stage is under siege from early specialisation and over enthusiastic youth coaches teaching advanced drills at a stage where fundamental movement skills,technique,fun should be the priority....
Too many MC’s not enough MIC’s,.....
#FlyMen
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Doc Rivers tells Bill Simmons it was so hard for him to coach Giannis Antetokounmpo during his tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks:
“He’s not easy. He plays at this crazy downhill pace. He’s really a difficult guy. He has this great passing ability, but he doesn’t have a super-high IQ at the same time. He really has only one way of playing. Every play, he wants to force it. I wish he’d learned how to execute better.
“The thing he still needs to learn is the value of execution how important it is, when you’re in practice and at shoot around, to lock in on execution. Now he has a coach who’s as good as there is at execution.”
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The Richest Man in the World.
Some men have millions but spend their nights buying company. Throwing expensive parties for people who barely like them. Dating women who love their bank accounts more than them. Keeping themselves busy because the silence of an empty house is unbearable.
And then there's this man.
Maybe the cake is small. Maybe there's barely enough money for a proper celebration. But look at how happy his family is just to have him home.
Those children will grow up remembering a father who worked himself to exhaustion to give them everything he could. And years from now, this little celebration will be a memory that brings a smile even on their hardest days.
Some men can buy almost anything. This man comes home to something no amount of money can buy.
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Mainstream media taking over vanity-project podcasts 🤝
This is a symptom of what ails sports in Kenya in general. Trust me, this same level of comprehension, knowledge and language is reflected in boardrooms when engaging sponsors and investors.
The problem runs much deeper than what we see on our screens. Even our own systems don’t believe in themselves. We have spent so long undermining the value of our own sports that we have normalised mediocrity, even in the rooms where decisions about the future of sport are made.
You cannot build a commercially competitive sports industry when the very people entrusted with selling it don’t believe in its value.
When we say mainstream media 🥺🥺are the stumbling block to our local football.....you don't know any kenyañ team , don't buy merchandise, don't buy tickets 🥺🥺what is c-a-f ...f* ck off you bought this job 😔
#FootballKE
That will be the 3rd Kenyan to be flagged for doping after breaking the same national record...400m Women!
Are we looking for a performer or mobilizer?
Two mobilizers ran and won an election, but couldn't stomach each other! Everyone thought they brought the 'cake'...
There's a PERFORMER ready to serve...but as always, arithmetics of ego might return us into the pits again!
Not shiny things.... good old simple bare necessities
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
Profound...reason democracy is different in the first world!
Leaders run to CHANGE things and not to enrich and plunder, she definitely follows in the footsteps of her Father also a retired politician....
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Democrat Deb Haaland has made history as the first Native American woman elected governor of a US state, according to Associated Press news agency projections.
🟠 LIVE updates: aje.news/avvdpp
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Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.
While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.
