Kenya's athlete Faith Kipyegon (L), Kenya's athlete Dorcus Ewoi and Australia's Linden Hall react after competing in the women's 1500m semi-final during the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on ...

By Marleen Kaesebier and Kurt Hall BORMIO, Italy, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Skier Issa Laborde is ready to make his Olympic debut for Kenya after his compatriot Sabrina Simader pulled out of her own races ...

As the 2026 Winter Games get started, here are some of the ways Olympic athletes are stepping up to take climate action.

Kenya suffered international embarrassment in 2016 when a string of doping scandals brought the country famed for its distance runners within a whisker of disqualification from the Rio Olympics. "It ...

Two Kenyans, Sabrina Wanjiku Simader and Issa Laborde, will compete in Alpine Skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, marking Kenya's bold winter sports debut.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Despite a surge of doping cases over the past four years and an increasingly dysfunctional and now suspended drug-testing agency, Kenya's athletes were cleared to compete at the Rio ...

Standing on top of the podium is the dream of every marathon runner. Staying there is the harder part. For Albert Korir, the 31-year-old Kenyan long-distance runner who won the 2021 New York City ...

Forty Kenyan athletes have been banned for doping since the 2012 Olympics and four senior track officials are under investigation for wrongdoing that includes potential cover-ups of drug cases. That, ...

Team Kenya will send 12 young swimmers to the World Aquatics Junior Open Water Championships in Santa Fe, Argentina, scheduled for September. The squad, aged 14–17, will begin preparations after the ...

Kenyan athletes may have shone at the world championships in Tokyo, winning seven golds, but persistent allegations of doping still cast a shadow as the global anti-doping agency threatens to sanction ...