STORY: At this training ground in Kenya's Iten there was a sense of relief on Tuesday (September 10). Athletes here have learned that the man accused of fatally setting fire to Ugandan marathon runner ...

By Marleen Kaesebier and Kurt Hall BORMIO, Italy, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Skier Issa Laborde is ready to make his Olympic debut for Kenya after his compatriot Sabrina Simader pulled out of her own races ...

As the 2026 Winter Games get started, here are some of the ways Olympic athletes are stepping up to take climate action.

Team Kenya will send 12 young swimmers to the World Aquatics Junior Open Water Championships in Santa Fe, Argentina, scheduled for September. The squad, aged 14–17, will begin preparations after the ...

The 2025 Boston Marathon has a new—and astonishing— women's course record after an athlete dominated the race. 31-year-old Sharon Lokedi from Kenya finished in first with an impressive time of 2:17:22 ...

Benard Kibet Koech has been issued a four-year ban for discrepancies in his Athlete Biological Passport. He had finished ...

ITEN, Kenya (AP) — As dawn breaks over the sleepy town of Iten, its dusty tracks come alive with packs of runners keeping rhythm, often followed by cheerful children headed to school. Some of the ...

Kenya hosts the world junior athletics championships in just over a year, hoping to showcase its future stars and the potential the country has to stage international athletics competitions. Athletes ...

Athletes from around the world are in the Italian Alps for the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics on Friday – including 13 ...

The Kenyan athletes representative, Noah Ngeny of Kenya runs in the men's 1500 meters at the "Memorial of Josef Odlozil" track and field meeting in Prague on June 17, 2002. REUTERS/Petr Josek/Files ...

ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's top runners have urged athletics fans and sports enthusiasts across the world to keep faith in them, despite media allegations of widespread doping in the east ...