Lessons from Beijing athletes and the ‘Wazungu’ line

Victorious Kenyan athletes return home to a hero's welcome after they topped the medal table at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing for the first time.

>Only 26 out of more than 50 athletes fine-tuning abroad ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games will make it to Glasgow, Scotland for the multi-sport event, it has been revealed. For the past three or so weeks, local athletes have been camping in four different countries- China, Turkey, Ethiopia and New Zealand- under the auspices of the government for the Games scheduled for July 23 to August 3.

Kenya has banned seven athletes, including two women sprinters sent home from the World championships in Beijing, for doping offences, Athletics Kenya said Saturday.

A head-on collision between a coach and lorry in Morocco has killed 31 people, many of them young athletes, officials say.

Kenya's para-athletic team has failed to travel to the World Championships in Doha as government funding was pulled at the last minute, an official says.

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Athletes now ready for FEASSA Games
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Masasi Secondary School students (blue jerseys) fight for the ball against Bentiv Complex students from South Sudan during their volleyball match at the (FEASSA) Games in Dar es Salaam. Athletics who are to compete at the ongoing Federation of East ...

Some of Kenya's top athletes threaten to stop representing their nation at international competitions like the Olympics over new tax laws.

>As Team Tanzania fine-tunes for Commonwealth Games, the participation of five local athletes in the multi-sport hangs in the balance.

The Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) has called upon sports bodies in the country to increase the number of female athletes to go inline with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) directive.