Kenyan giants sweating on Rio Olympics chances


Athletes exercise in the early morning in Iten, near the town of Eldoret, western Kenya, March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

ELDORET, Kenya, Jun 28 (Reuters) - Some of Kenya's most celebrated athletes' reputations will be on the line when they compete in the country's Olympic trials on Thursday and Friday, just weeks before the start of the Rio Games.

The trials will be held at the high-altitude North Rift Valley town of Eldoret, some 350km north west of the capital, Nairobi, home to some of the world's finest middle- and long-distance athletes.

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