Athletics Kenya (AK) has organized for athletes consultative forums aimed at addressing their pertinent issues.
Normally the federation invites selected athletes to their seminars locking out several of them who would have benefited from the forums.
However while announcing the new changes in their approach, AK said they have planned for an all-inclusive consultative forums where athletes are free to bring along their spouses.
The realisation comes after concerns over athletes’ mental health following the murder of 2015 World Cross Country Championships gold medalist Agnes Tirop last month in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County.
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Calls for an end to gender-based violence dominated Tirop's burial proceedings.
AK acknowledge that there is a big problem affecting athletes that needs to be fixed.
The gatherings, which will be known as Athletics Kenya National Consultative Meetings, shall be held in more than 10 zones within three weeks.
According to AK’s Senior Vice President Paul Mutwii, AK will hold one-day consultative meetings where all athletes within a particular region will be invited to discuss issues that affect them.
Mutwii said that athletes will be free to attend the one-day event with their spouses as one way of bringing the athletics fraternity together.
Some of the topics to be addressed will include social issues and the doping menace.
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