Timo Werner confident the goals will flow again

By Agencies,

Chelsea forward Timo Werner says there is much more to come from him after admitting he has never experienced a goal drought like this season. We...

Timo Werner

Decision on foreign spectators up to Japan, says IOC’s Coates

By Reuters,

The decision whether to allow overseas spectators to attend the Summer Games is up to Japan, a senior International Olympic Committee official said on...

John Coates , olympics , Tokyo 2020

Syombua chasing Olympic dream

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

With the rescheduled Olympic Games barely five months away, Hellen Syombua is seeking to hit top form as she eyes to make her debut at the largest spo...

Athletics Kenya , Hellen Syombua

Japan planning to ban overseas Olympic spectators over COVID-19 fears

By Reuters,

Japan’s government is planning to stop overseas spectators coming to the Summer Olympics due to worries they will spread the coronavirus, a report s...

olympics , Tokyo 2020

Athletics: Team Kenya begins bubble training at Kasarani

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Team Kenya's athletics is the first team to go into  bubble camp that will last for two weeks at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani as pre...

Atheltics Kenya , Bubble training , Kasarani , NOCK

Waithaka eyes Tokyo Olympics success

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Stanley Waithaka is confident his stay in Japan will play a major role in his quest to shine at the Olympic Games set for this summer. The delayed ...

JAPAN , Olympic Games , Stanley Waithaka

Tergat urges marathoners to stay focused ahead of Olympics

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) President Paul Tergat has challenged the marathon team to remain steadfast as the clock ticks down tow...

olympics , Paul Tergat , Tokyo 2020

Why all-conquering Jepchirchir has her work cut out

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert KiprotichChief writer, athletics While 2020 was a year many would want to erase from their memories, for Peres Jepchirchir it was a bitter-...

Peres Jepchirchir

Malkia Strikers to hit camp in March ahead of Olympics

By Stanley Mativo,

National women’s volleyball team, Malkia Strikers, will hit the camp next month for the preparations of the rescheduled 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. T...

Malkia Strikers , olympics

Kipchoge to return to Hamburg

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge will be making a return to Hamburg, the place where he made his marathon debut for the NN Mission Marathon...

Eliud Kipchoge

Obiri eyeing double events at Tokyo Olympics

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

World 5000m champion Hellen Obiri is keen to compete in both 5,000m and 10,000m events at this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. The 31-year-ol...

Hellen Obiri , JAPAN , Olympic Games , Tokyo

Olympics: Tokyo organisers could choose new president this week

By Reuters,

Tokyo Olympic organisers could choose their new president as early as this week, a report said on Monday, after former chief Yoshiro Mori resigned ove...

New president , Tokyo Olympics , Yoshiro Mori

Tokyo Olympics chief Mori quits over sexist remarks

By Reuters,

Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori resigned on Friday and again apologised for his sexist remarks that sparked a global outcry, leaving the troubl...

olympics , Tokyo 2020 , Yoshiro Mori

Tokyo 2020’s Mori to quit as he vows to end controversy

By Reuters,

The president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, will resign over a sexist remark that sparked an outcry, two sources said...

olympics , sexism , Tokyo 2020 , Yoshiro Mori

Shujaa ready to cause upsets in Spain, says captain Oyoo

By John Kyanda,

Shujaa co-captain Nelson Oyoo is confident the team has the potential to cause an upset in the two tournaments that they have been invited to compete ...

Shujaa

Olympic cancellation would be a ‘tragedy’ – AK chief Tuwei

By Kiprotich Kimetto,

The Athletics Kenya (AK) president Jackson Tuwei has said cancellation of the Olympics would cast a huge mental burden upon athletes as he backed the ...

Jackson Tuwei , olympics , Tokyo 2020

Tokyo Olympics chief retracts sexist comments, refuses to resign

By Reuters,

Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori on Thursday apologised for sexist comments about women talking too much, but said he would not resign, even as his r...

olympics , Tokyo 2020 , Yoshiro Mori

Tokyo Olympics face another looming headache – no medical staff

By Reuters,

Japanese doctors and nurses fighting the novel coronavirus will not have the time to volunteer to help at the Olympics, a medical association has said...

COVID-19 , olympics , Tokyo 2020

Tuchel backs Werner to shine again

By Agencies,

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel says out-of-form forward Timo Werner's goal drought is "nothing special" and "happens to every striker in the world". ...

Canadian Olympians against skipping COVID-19 vaccine line

By Reuters,

For some Canadian athletes heading to the Tokyo Olympics this summer, the thought of receiving a vaccine against COVID-19 before a fellow citizen in g...

covid-19 vaccine , olympics , Tokyo 2020