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Leonard Thadeo: Mkurugenzi wa Michez Akizungumza na shirika la habari la Uingereza la BBC hivi karibuni mkurugenzi wa michezo nchini Leonard Thadeo amekiri vyama vingi vya michezo kupoteza uaminifu (credibility) kwa wadhamini wa michezo ndani na nje ya nchi. Alielezea jinsi serikali ilivyokuwa mstari wa mbele kusaidia vyama vya michezo miaka ya nyuma, alielezea changamoto mojawapo ya serikali kushindwa kusaidia michezo hivi sasa kuwa ni kuanguka kwa uchumi duniani. Bwana Thadeo alisema "wadhamini wamesha wahi kushuhudia viongozi wa michezo wakigombania fedha ama vifaa vinavyotolewa na wadhamini, kitendo ambacho kinawakatisha tamaa ya kuendelea kutoa udhamini wenyewe" alisema mheshimiwa Thadeo. "Makampuni yanapodhamini vyama vya michezo vinategemea kupata matangazo yenye maadili mema (good influence) ili nao pia wafaidike" mkurugenzi alisema.

That season I was untouchable  after winning all eight cross country meets, but Cosmas Musyoka of Kenya almost out-kicked me in Fresno California but I kept the pressure to the end.  Thanks Helen for the records.

Wilson Kipsang/Photo by Victah Sailer After spending two years being known as the man who came agonisingly close to breaking the Marathon world record, Kenya's Wilson Kipsang made it his own property when he clocked 2.03.23 at the BMW Berlin Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday.* Kipsang, 31, took 15 seconds off his compatriot Patrick Makau’s mark of 2.03.38, set in the same race two years ago. Berlin’s cachet of possessing the fastest Marathon course in the world has again emphasised. This is the eighth world record on the course in 15 years. Barely a month after Makau’s set Berlin’s seventh World record, Kipsang won the 2011 Frankfurt Marathon in 2.03.42. He went on to win the London Marathon 2012, but finished third at the London 2012 Olympic Games three months later. In only his second Marathon, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, the 2003 World 5000m champion, finished second in 2.04.05, improving his best by more than a minute; and another Kenyan, Geo

Eliud Kipchoge Just over ten years ago, the teenage Eliud Kipchoge sprang into the public consciousness by holding off the celebrated Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele to win the World 5000 metres title in one of the most exciting finishes in the history of track distance running. Despite a decade of superlative performances since then, including Olympic silver and bronze medals, Kipchoge has not quite managed to reach the heights of that performance in Paris. Pursuing, as he admits an ‘old school’ idea of turning to marathons at the end of his career, the 29 year old Kipchoge made a winning debut, 2.05.30 in Hamburg six months ago. It was a tough race, but if Hamburg was the frying pan, Berlin, where he runs on Sunday, will be the fire. The course may be clement – ‘flat and forgiving,’ as Desiree Davila characterised yesterday - but the opposition is torrid. It would have been more so, had not current world record holder, Patrick Makau had to pull o