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Players gather to practice inline roller hockey, some of them from the Kenyan Ice Hockey National Team, as they teach junior players the game as an initiation to the sport for those who cannot afford ice rink time, at a car park in downtown Nairobi on January 26, 2025. Ice hockey only arrived in Kenya in 2006, after a group of bored Canadians set up in Nairobi the East Africa's only ice rink – but it was not until 2019 that a national federation was established.Facing off against a bunch of amateurs from colder nations, Kenya's red-and-black-clad national team, also known as the “Kenya Ice Lions”, won their first title in a friendly league. The victory came months after another triumph for the Ice Lions, which became only the fifth African team to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)
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