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

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 ...

The shadow of doping once again looms over Kenyan athletics after the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) decided this week to ban ...

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.

In the pantheon of Kenya’s world-conquering athletes, none occupies a more exalted place than Dr Keino, who is also an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee. His well-documented ...

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 ...

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 ...