World Athletics president Lord Coe has insisted that the Olympic Games in Tokyo should be postponed due to coronavirus pandemic. Coe’s letter to International Olympics Committee president Thomas Bach said: “No-one wants to see the Olympic Games postponed but as I have said publicly, we cannot hold the event at all costs, certainly not at […]
Reigning All Africa Games 1,500m gold medalist Quailyne Kiprop will be chasing a world record when the season resumes after the coronavirus pandemic. The Baringo based runner, while talking to the Star Newspaper said she was to compete at the start of Diamond League in Doha that was postponed due to the pandemic was optimistic […]
World half marathon record holder Geoffrey Kamworor has vowed to continue training ahead of any race after the World Health Organization (WHO) would declare the coronavirus Pandemic is over. The three-time world half marathon champion was set to defend his 4th title on 24th March but the World Athletics had to cancel the event due to the […]
Athletics Kenya has ordered closure of all training camps in the country to control the spread of coronavirus Today, the federation’s chief administrative officer Susan Kamau said in a statement said that athletes should continue with individual training programmes with coaches encouraged to continue monitoring their athletes for the next 30 days. At the same […]
With coronavirus biting across the world, the Eastern region joined the rest of the regions in the country in closing down all the athletes training camps as part of measures to contain the pandemic. Machakos, Kitui and Makueni counties that have enjoyed a good number of athletes like Patrick Makau, joined the athletics mad region […]
Coronavirus has dealt a double tragedy for Kenyan juniors, who have taken up running as their career at their tender age. In the first tragedy, the juniors, who had the dream to run for the country at the Africa Cross country championships, came to a test when the Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) postponed the […]
2020 timetable season Athletics Diamond Leagues have been suspended in response to the growing global crisis around the new coronavirus. Due to the growing number of countries affected by the COVID-19 virus, the first three meetings of the 2020 Wanda Diamond League season, scheduled for 17th April in Qatar, 9th and 16th May 2020 in […]
Christed as Home of champions due to its numerous training camps and athletes running across the world, Elgeyo Marakwet county has closed down all the training camps to curb Coronavirus. In today’s circular Elgeyo Marakwet governor Alex Tolgos has ordered the closure of all training camps. “Our athletes are our pride and in this county, […]
Nandi County government has closed down all training camps based in the county to control the spread of Coronavirus Pandemic. The closure will affect over 200 professional athletes who are based in the 20 training camps across the county. Today, county boss Stephen Sang said in order the them to combat COVID-19, they had to […]
Lawrence Cherono’s mission to defend his Boston marathon title has been postponed to October due to Coronavirus Pandemic. In a communication on Friday, the race organisers have rescheduled the race that was to be held on April 20th has been postponed to September 14th. The Chicago marathon winner won last year’s men’s race in 2:07:57 […]