Kenya's Shehzana Anwar in action during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Women's competition at the Sambodromo archery venue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [AFP]
We have two training centres and two African titles. Build the structures, and the government and corporate Kenya must pay for them.
On Monday this week, Kenyatta University opened its gates to the Anoca Zone V Youth Games, the first time Kenya has staged the continental youth showcase. 11 countries. More than 300 teenagers. Seven sports disciplines: athletics, swimming, 3x3 basketball, judo, cycling, tennis and beach volleyball.
Count those sports again. Seven. A rehearsal for the Youth Olympic Games, on a Kenyan campus, in a week when a Kenyan holds an African archery title, and not one arrow will be loosed on Thika Road.
The galling part is that Kenyatta already has the only thing archery needs: flat open ground, acres of it. A range could be pegged out there between now and the closing ceremony, and nobody has thought to do it.
Kenya must wake up. This is the cheapest medal opportunity available to us anywhere in world sport, and it is going begging while the government builds stadiums and corporate Kenya queues up behind football. Build the ranges. Fund the coaches.
What the sport actually is