Caster Semenya, 32, a two-time Olympic winner in the 800 metres, has made a modest step toward competing in Paris 2024, but she still has a long way to go in her fight against ... Read more »
Alex Isaboke for Capital FM reports that the penultimate day of the 24th Summer Deaflympics in Caxias do Sul in Brazil, saw Kenya bag eight medals - Read more »
Blessing Okagbare-Otegheri, 33, was Nigeria's hope for a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games but was suspended for testing positive in a drugs test taken in Slovenia in July ... Read more »
Hundreds of people gathered to bid farewell to record-breaking long-distance runner Agnes Tirop, who was stabbed to death in her home. Tirop represented Kenya in the ... Read more »
Despite initial skepticism and local opposition, the delayed Tokyo Paralympics Games eventually turned out to be a huge success, with Japanese athletes performing exceptionally ... Read more »
Kenya featured prominently on August 8 as curtains were drawn on the 32nd Olympic Games, with Tokyo organisers overcoming huge challenges, most significantly rising coronavirus ... Read more »
There have been a few bursts of brilliance from the African continent at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. South African athletes saw a silver medal win for Tatjana Schoenmaker in the ... Read more »
The ban on intersex athletes who refuse to alter their natural hormones is one of many controversies regarding the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. When the world's fastest women race for gold ... Read more »
Olympic gold medal wins from South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker, Tunisia's Ahmed Hafnaoui and Ethiopia's Selemon Barega have showcased the power of the continent at the 2021 Games ... Read more »
The Namibia National Olympic Committee president Abner Xoagub has said that the World Athletics acted with negligence and insensitivity after inexplicably breaking a ... Read more »
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