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Chebet did not finish her race during the trials but posted impressive results on the World Cross-Country Tour. •For instance, concerns had been raised about the inclusion of Commonwealth Games 5000m champion Beatrice Chebet in the women's senior team. •Team Kenya has been based in Embu since January after qualifying for the global showpiece in December last year. Coach Julius Kirwa expects Kenyan athletes to shine at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 23 on Saturday, February 18. The World Athletics on Friday released the final list of 453 elite runners from 48 teams who will grace the show including 24 Kenyan athletes. Kirwa stated that the star-studded Team Kenya list was chosen on merit, despite claims that some key members were absorbed without following the required process. For instance, concerns had been raised about the inclusion of Commonwealth Games 5000m champion Beatrice Chebet in the women's senior team. Chebet did not finish her rac...

The International Olympic Committee pushed back against the mayor of Paris on Wednesday, insisting there were no plans for "a Russian or Belarusian delegation” at the 2024 Games while also acknowledging that some athletes from those countries could be welcomed. The IOC statement came a day after Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said no Russians or Belarusians should be allowed to compete at next year's Olympics because of their involvement in the war in Ukraine. Olympic leaders have set out a path for athletes from Russia and Belarus who have not actively supported the war to try to qualify and compete as “neutral athletes” without a national identity such as team uniforms, flags and anthems. “It is not possible to parade as if nothing had happened, to have a delegation that comes to Paris while the bombs continue to rain down on Ukraine,” Hidalgo said Tuesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with many sports leaders and athletes, have consistently said all potent...

Gidabuday Sports Tourism Foundation staff visited the team at their current training camp located at Arusha’s Suburb town of Ngaramtoni. We were welcomed by smiling faces of athletes and national Coach Mr. Denis Malle, soon after arrival we visited the rooms, dining cafeteria and other hospitable surroundings. Our brief discussion was about few but important exchange of advises and solidarity uptake ahead of Australia world event, we cemented what they already know how best to do as follows; - That - it is important for them to do their best to place within top 15 so they can obtain automatic qualification for the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships to be held later this year - That - their individual and team effort could be a reward to our country; few of them can carry the entire map of Tanzania to the world stage - That - the trip to Australia is of their own sacrifice therefore no mistake shall be alowd “do or die for your nation” Meanwhile the Team Coach Mr...

Amid outcry over the potential inclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes at Paris 2024, the IOC has reiterated its stance on sanctions. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reiterated it will stand by the sanctions imposed against Russia and Belarus after appearing to open the door for their inclusion at the Paris 2024 Games. The two nations are currently banned from Olympic competition following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. But IOC statements last month appeared to clear a pathway for the inclusion of athletes from both countries to compete under a neutral flag. Now, however, the governing body has sought to clarify its position - in particular as a response to recent comments made by Stanislav Pozdnyakov, head of Russia’s Olympic Committee. Pozdnyakov told Russia’s state news agency TASS, “Russians must participate on the same conditions as athletes from other countries. We do not welcome additional conditions and criteria, especially those that inclu...

Ruth Chepngetich, the 2019 world marathon champion, produced two amazing runs at the Kenyan Cross Country Championships – a World Athletics Cross Country Tour Bronze event – to win a pair of titles within an hour at the Kenya Prisons Training College in Ruiru. Racing at the venue that was probably her training ground during her time in the Kenya Prisons Service, Chepngetich dominated the senior women’s 10km event, then anchored her team to victory in the mixed relay. Kenya held its trial event for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 23 in December, but today’s event will be used to select national runners for the Sirikwa Classic – a World Cross Country Tour Gold meeting – in Eldoret on 4 February. Within the first kilometre, Chepngetich – who led the world marathon list last year with 2:14:18, the second-fastest run in history – had stretched the senior women’s field to single file. By half way, her lead had grown to about 150 metres. She continued to lead, bu...