2006 Africa 10,000m and 5,000m silver medalist Mike Kigen has turned his back on motherland and has joined the growing list of Kenyans running for Asian nations. Kigen, 29, will now compete for Turkey as Kaan Kigen Ozbilen. His last major international competition was last October where he finished 3rd at the Amsterdam marathon won …
Former Kenya all-rounder Thomas Odoyo, has been appointed interim head coach of the national cricket team ahead of the World Cricket League Championships ties with United Arab Emirates. Odoyo will be assisted by his former teammate Lameck Onyango. The two replace another former national team all-rounder Sibtain Kassamali who has been in charge of the …
He crisscrosses the tables, greeting each of the guests at his front yard flashing his trademark smile as he served us drinks. “Welcome! Welcome feel free, today is just to eat and dance till morning,” he teased at the after party he hosted for tens of his friends, guests at his palatial mansion in Addis …
Moscow - It seems like the drama surrounding the women’s marathon for the world championships has rubbed on the Ethiopian camp. As team Kenya sweated over Valentine Kipketer’s participation at the championships after she was ‘forgotten’ in her hotel room a day before fire gutted the Jomo Kenyatta international Airport in Nairobi causing massive travel …
The late 2008 Olympic marathon champion Samuel Kamau Wanjiru was murdered and did not fall to his death as widely believed. A former chief government pathologist Dr Moses Njue who led the team of four Doctors that conducted a postmortem on the fallen heros’ body on Tuesday said he was convinced that Wanjiru was hit …
BEIJING - Barely a day after she improved on her own Kenyan 400m record,Sportsnewsarena.com has learnt that Joyce Zakary and African 400m hurdles silver medalist Francisca Koki may have failed doping tests that came to fore soon after their qualifying runs here in Beijing. The two leading Kenyan sprinters both tested positive for a masking …
RIO DE JANIERO, Archer Shehzana Anwar has been chosen as Kenya’s Flag bearer for Friday’s opening ceremony of the Rio Olympic games at the iconic Maracana stadium. The reigning African Archery women champion will lead the Kenya march past in her debut Olympics, an important honour bestowed to athletes, that should inspire her as she …