Ever since Kenya’s first Olympics hockey foray at the Melbourne 1956 Games, three men epitomise the spirit of Kenya’s Olympics hockey odyssey. Surjeet Singh Deol was Kenya’s hockey captain, and Kenya thereafter comfortably qualified for the next five hockey editions of the Olympics. Come the 1960 Rome Games, Tari and Junior were on the Kenya team. At the Rome 1960 Games, Kenya, still a British colony, finished joint 7th with East Germany on the classification log of 16 countries. Before that, the two countries had met as Kenya participated in the inaugural 1971 Hockey World Cup in Barcelona.

Source: Daily Nation February 24, 2019 06:00 UTC