Olympics Archive

Recent wrangles within Athletics Kenya (AK) federation seems to have cooled down  following a long day meeting between the embattled President Isaiah Kiplagat and the affiliates chairmen held at Riadha House in Nairobi on …

Britain’s Mo Farah outfoxed the fast-paced Kenyan team tactics to become the second man to achieve the double of world and Olympics 5,000 and 10,000 metres titles at the world championships on Friday. Mo Farah of Britain …

If the current excitement at the Tanzania Golf Union (TGU) quarters is anything to go by, the national golf body is relishing a place at the summer Olympics slated for August 2016 in Rio de …

Rwanda’s lone representative at the Under-17 World Athletics Championships James Sugira left for Ukraine last night aboard Turkish Airline. The championship runs from July 10 to 14 in Donetsk, Ukraine. The 17-year old, a Form …

Nairobi, Kenya: World-beating deaf athletes Wednesday vowed to improve their pecking order at the 22nd Summer Deaflympics Games in Sofia, Bulgaria, in August. Daniel Kiptum Three top guns – Baxtone Menjo, David Kipkogei and Daniel Kiptum – made the announcement after they won …

As much as $30bn (£20bn) has been stolen in preparations for next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russian opposition leaders say. Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov at a news conference in Moscow at which he …

The number of children with intellectual disabilities who are attending a special sports training programme organised by Special Olympics Tanzania (SOT) has reached 65 in just three weeks. The programme, which is special for children …