"The recent deaths show the athletes are facing major challenges including financial and mental health issues." - 'Alarming' ...

Judge Reuben Nyakundi convicted Peter Ushuru Khalumi and David Ekai Lokere of murdering a Kenyan-born Ugandan Olympian, ...

The murder of a Ugandan marathon runner returning from the Paris Olympics has "highlighted a horrifying trend in Kenya", said The Sunday Times. Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, died of burns last week in ...

Kenya has lost many young athletes at the prime of their careers because of a troubling pattern of events. What are the ...

After the attack, the head of Uganda’s Olympic Committee, Donald Rukare, decried Marangach’s “vicious attack” against Cheptegei, while the Paris Olympics organisers said the “despicable crime reminds ...

SUMMERS: Kenyan runner Ruth Chepng'etich smashed the ... SUMMERS: She was left off the Kenyan Olympic Team this summer after she didn't perform as well at the London Marathon this spring.

Kenyan athletes competing in Paris have been subjected to a stringent testing regime, undergoing three out-of-competition tests in the 10 months leading up to the Olympics. Kenyan anti-doping ...

A host of runners are set for a taxing quadrennial feat — the quick turnaround from the Olympic marathon to the New York City ...

BEIJING -- Ethiopia's Lemi Berhanu Hayle and Kenya's Vicoty Chepngeno claimed the men's and women's titles, respectively, at ...

A court in Kenya has sentenced two men to 35 years each for the murder of Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat at the end of ...

I have had a lifelong love of both history and the Olympics. Kenyan distance runner Hellen Obiri won a bronze medal in the women’s marathon in Paris, but it was for other reasons that she made ...