Kenyan swimmers risk being locked out of the first qualifiers for the 2012 London Olympic Games if they fail to travel to Morocco next week.
Kenya Swimming Federation (KSF) has said swimmers must attend the African Senior Championships in Casablanca, Morocco, from September 13 to 19.
KSF Chairman Ben Ekumbo said the federation forwarded a budget of [...]

The Argentine coach of Sunshine Stars, Rodolfo Zapata is a new candidate to be Head Coach of Nigeria National Team. It’s not surprise, he led unfenced Sunshine Stars of Akure (Nigeria Premier League) to a continental ticket in his first season with the club, who are regarded as perennial underachievers in the local league.
Allnigeriasoccer.com [...]

Cricket Kenya said on Monday it had reached an agreement over new contracts with 14 national team players, ending a two-month dispute that had threatened to derail the sport.
The crisis reached its height when the players boycotted training in mid June, which led to a pre-World Cricket League tour to England to be scrapped and [...]

The Argentine coach of Sunshine Stars FC in Nigeria, Rodolfo Zapata is one of the international greatest coaches, known for inspiring the Argentina and Nigeria National Teams to work as a team.
He has told allnigeriasoccer.com that Argentina need to use past mistakes as learning tools.
Here are his winning strategies that inspire change. Motivate [...]

Olympic champion and defending Chicago Marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru, and Boston Marathon title holder Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot will be among elite athletes who will be taking part in this year’s Edition of Chicago Marathon which will be held on the 10th of October.
Other athletes include Kenya’s Vincent Kipruto, who placed third in last year’s race [...]

Kenya has won 6 Medals, 3 gold medals, 2 silver and a bronze on the first day of the Great Lakes Open Paralympics championships at the Nyayo national stadium.
Emmanuel Cheruiyot led a clean medal sweep in the 5000m T11/12 category for the Visually Impaired.
Francis Thuo scooped the silver and double Paralympics champion Henry Wanyoike bronze.
Reigning [...]

Kenya’s Virginia Nyambura put herself on course to winning a gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on Thursday after winning her heat in the 2,000 metres steeplechase, beating a field of 13 athletes.
Nyambura clocked six minutes and 42.40 seconds as she raced to the finish line ahead of Ethiopian Tsenga Tsehynesh who [...]

Kenya’s Harambee Stars take on Ethiopia in Addis Ababa in a friendly international on Wednesday evening as they prepare for the start of the qualifiers for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
The Stars who played to a one all draw Tanzania last week in Dar- es-Salaam left the country on Monday night with a team [...]

Kenya lit up the Middlesex Sevens in England with brothers Humphrey Kayange and Collins Injera helping Samurai win the title, while the Shujaa team reached the tournament quarter-finals.
Kayange and Injera spotted the Samurai outfit in the one-day knockout tournament, helping the select team to win their first ever title in the tournament’s 80-year-old history. Injera [...]

Paul Kipsiele Koech led a Kenyan sweep of the 3,000 metres Steeplechase winning in a time of 8 minutes 02.18 seconds in the Samsung Diamond League in Stockholm Sweden.
The 28-year-old failed to break his own 7 minutes 59.42 seconds stadium record and take home the first one carat diamond.
Compatriots Silas Kosgei Kitum was second in [...]

It had to take the very last event on the final day to decide Kenya’s nation that would assume the mantle of Africa’s track and field kings for the next couple of years.
The race — men 4X400m relay final. The overall medal standings prior to that, hosts Kenya were leading Nigeria nine gold to eight.
And [...]

If Nyayo National Stadium was a continental courtroom, history would say Kenya’s athletes prosecuted their case well, gave a good account of their country, and victory went where it belongs.
Ecstasy would be an understatement, euphoric maybe, but electrifying it was. The jolt of victory and aftershock, as they shook the field, was felt in all [...]

Kenya on Sunday evening emerged as the overall winners of the five-day Africa senior Athletics championship that ended at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi.
The host nation ended the final day with 25 medals _ 10 gold, seven silver and eight bronze. South Africa got 19 medals and Nigeria took 18.
Ethiopia’s Sofia Abebe Assefa denied [...]

Kenya’s favourite, Vivian Cheruiyot gets the chance to win her maiden African title when she leads the Kenyan trio in the women’s 5,000m final today.
The 12 and a half lap decider is one of the most anticipated contests of the 17th Safaricom African Athletics Championships, and takes place on a track Cheruiyot, the reigning world [...]

Litttle-known Wilson Kiprop, stunned favourites Mathew Kisorio and Moses Kipsiro of Uganda to clinch 10,000 gold as the Senior Africa Athletics Championship started on Wednesday at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi. Ever since Charles Kamathi lifted the gold in Brazzaville in 2004, Kenya has struggled to dominate the race and were humiliated in Addis [...]