Tokyo Games delayed to 2021, easing athletes’ angst

By Reuters,

The Tokyo Olympics were postponed on Tuesday to 2021, the first such delay in the Games’ 124-year modern history, as the coronavirus crisis wrecked ...

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Athletes to sleep on cardboard beds at Tokyo Olympics

By Reuters,

Athletes competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will sleep on bed frames made from recyclable cardboard, with mattresses formed of p...

Olympic Games , Tokyo 2020

National sitting volleyball trials set for Machakos

By Evans Makokha,

A total 17 counties have already confirmed they will send teams to Machakos for the National Trials of the sitting volleyball from August 9 to 12. ...

National Trials , Sitting Volleyball

Paralympian Muchai confident of good outing in Morocco

By Allen Mwazani,

Rio 2016 1,500m and 5,000m Paralympics champion Samuel Muchai will be hoping to replicate his stellar form that propelled him to the 2017 SOYA award a...

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Historic Muchai wins overall SOYA title

By Jacob Icia,

Paralympian Samuel Muchai is the Overall Sports Personality of the Year (SOYA) 2017. Muchai, who was also named Sportsman of the Year Living with ...

Legendary Wanyoike back on track, aims at 2020 Olympics

By Philip Muchiri,

After missing the 2016 Rio Olympics Games in Brazil, Paralympics marathon record holder Henry Wainyoike is poised to make a return to the track. In...

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Run for Office: Athletics stars in the race for 2017 polls

By Citizen Team,

Blind runner, Henry Wanyoike, Wilfred Bungei and Wilson Kipsang have represented the country with distinction at the grandest stage in athletics, brin...

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Queen’s honours: Arise Sir Mo Farah, Sir Andy Murray

By Reuters,

Olympic athlete Mo Farah, tennis star Andy Murray, actor Mark Rylance, comedian Ken Dodd and Kinks musician Ray Davies have been knighted in Queen Eli...

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Flashback 2016: Steeplechase still safe haven as baton passed

By Daniel Korir,

On the eve of the men’s 3000m steeplechase finals, at the 2016 Rio Olympics, two-time Olympics gold medalist and four–time world champion Ezekiel ...

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Muchai, Chelagat atop race for Para-athletes of the Year

By Matthews Mutai,

The Rio 2016 Paralympics double gold medalist Samuel Muchai and silver medalist Nancy Chelagat lead the race for the race for Para-athletes of the Yea...

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Probe report exposes Team Kenya Rio 2016 ‘Game of Greed’

By Mutwiri Mutuota,

The full 90-page Rio 2016 Probe Committee report exposes how National Olympics Committee-Kenya (Nock) and Ministry of Sports, Arts and Culture officia...

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Agony as Ministry, athletes shift blame over pay

By Charity Wanja,

A stand-off between a section Team Kenya to the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics Games who are yet to receive monies owed and the Ministry of Sports...

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Team Kenya Paralympics deny mistreatment, embezzlement claims

By Charity Wanja,

Team Kenya athletes for the 2016 Rio Paralympics have distanced themselves from claims funds meant for the squad was misappropriated and they were mis...

Dr David Ole Sankok , Rio 2016 Paralympics , Samuel Muchai

President Kenyatta orders Rio 2016 stars to be paid in full

By Charity Wanja,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Sports, Arts and Culture, Dr. Richard Ekai to ensure Team Kenya athlet...

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Demos demand Wario, Paralympics boss Maina to step down

By Charity Wanja,

The National Council of Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) demonstrated outside the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission headquarters on Monday mornin...

Dr David Ole Sankok , Dr. Hassan Wario , Maina Kimaru , Paralympics

EACC summons Sankok over Ksh132m Paralympics cash claims

By Matthews Mutai,

National Council of Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) chairman, Dr. David Ole Sankok, has been summoned by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to...

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Cat and Mouse games as Paralympics bosses meet Dr. Wario

By Charity Wanja,

Sports Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Hassan Wario and officials of the National Council for Persons with Disabilities as well as those from the Kenya Nationa...

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Kenya Paralympics stars set sight on Tokyo 2020 glory

By Matthews Mutai,

Team Kenya Paralympics star, Samuel Kimani Muchai, is looking forward to Tokyo 2020 after returning home from the Rio 2016 edition in Brazil a double ...

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Paralympians slam treatment in echoes of Rio 2016 fiasco

By Jacob Icia,

The return of the advance party of Team Kenya to Rio 2016 Paralympics turned into theatre when it was claimed there were more able-bodied members of t...

Dr David Ole Sankok , Paralympics , Rio 2016 , team kenya

Paralympics Team Kenya slam Sports Ministry

By Geoffrey Mwamburi,

Team Kenya for the Rio 2016 Paralympics has fired a broadside to the Ministry for Sports, Culture and Arts for what they termed as discrimination agai...

Dr David Ole Sankok , Dr. Hassan Wario , Paralympics , Rio 2016