Seven Kenyan athletes banned for doping

Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo has been banned for two years for failing a doping test.

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.

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.

Marathon runner Rita Jeptoo becomes the latest athlete from Kenya to fail a doping test, the country's athletics body confirm.

>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.

The lawyer probing alleged corruption and covering up of doping offences in Kenya’s national athletics federation has received “many” offers of people wanting to provide evidence, he told AFP.

Two-time world cross country champion Emily Chebet is among seven athletes given doping ban by Athletics Kenya.

Daryl Impey, the first South African to wear the Tour de France yellow jersey, is cleared of doping.

Athletics Kenya describes new allegations of doping in a leaked newspaper report as 'libellous, suspect and ill-motivated'.