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Andrea Sambu Sipe The former world junior cross country champion Andrew Sambu and another outstanding marathon runner Dickson Marwa are expected to compete at this year’s Dubai Marathon.   “I will try my best to qualify for Rio De Janeiro Olympic Games “, said the 45 years old Anrew Sambu who was training hard at Arusha Stadium recently. Dubai Marathon will be held in three weeks time (January 22 2016). Dickson Marwa has also been training hard for the same race; the two athletes have a long history of which both have represented Tanzania at several international competitions. Three Marathoners have so far qualified for Rio Games;  -         Alfonce Felix at Gold Coast Marathon – Australia -         Saidi Juma Makula at Casablanca Marathon - Morocco -         Fabian Joseph at Hofu Marathon - Japan Tanzanians hope Sambu and Marw...

Al Jazeera investigation raises questions about whether sports heroes are linked to performance enhancing drugs Inside a hotel room in Austin, Texas, a pharmacist advises a professional athlete on taking performance-enhancing drugs. "One anabolic, and I can give you something to use right now, is this Delta 2 stuff. It's a steroid. There's a bunch of football players who take this," he tells Liam Collins, a British hurdler reporting undercover. In another conversation, a Vancouver pharmacist poses a question to the same athlete. "Have I doped people? Oh yeah. And no one's got caught because the system is so easy to beat. That's the sad fact." Later, a Naturopath doctor explains how he would destroy medical records if investigators came looking for them. "I can just document everything not in this chart but on my own chart. And if somebody ever comes sniffing for it, it's very easy to just delete and say no, this is the ...

Fina Mango / Ex TTA President Acting president of Tanzania Tennis Association (TTA) Fina Mango has resigned from her post citing being busy with other engagements as the main reason.   Mango was elected vice president of TTA but was acting president after Methusela Mbajo resigned three years ago.   In a letter dated December 10, 2015 addressed to National Sports Council (NSC) and TTA secretary general William Kallaghe, Mango said she has resigned from her post due to engagements with personal and other issues.     “This is to inform you that from today (December 10, 2015 ) I have resigned from my post as acting president of TTA…I wish the association all the best,” said part of the letter.   Mango on Monday could not answer her cell phone when we wanted to know from her, only to send a short message later that she is busy.   Yesterday she could also not answer her mobile phone.   Efforts to have confirma...

Roger Federer will partner former Wimbledon champion Martina Hingis for Switzerland in the mixed doubles at the 2016 Olympics in Rio Federer, 34, and Hingis last played mixed doubles together at the Hopman Cup in Australia in 2001. The 17-time Grand Slam champion said he is "really excited". "I looked up to her when I was younger, I thought she was the most unbelievable talent," added Federer, who is a year younger than Hingis.  "She's almost my age and she was winning Grand Slams while I was still at the national tennis centre and I couldn't believe how good she was." Hingis, 35, has won five Grand Slam singles titles in her career, including Wimbledon in 1997 at the age of 16.  She came out of retirement for a second time in 2013  and has since enjoyed great doubles success, winning five titles in 2015, including the mixed doubles and the women's doubles at the US Open.  Source: bbc.com/sport

"I read this old archive report about the hardship brought to Barbaig community by Canadian Government, Canada is regarded as one of world's leading countries to hate human rights abuses! Barbaig community should reopen the case in the international court for retribution|" A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 23rd November 1994. To the Barabaig people of Tanzania, home is where the dead lie. When a man dies, a mound is built for his spirit to inhabit. A holy tree is planted beside it, under which his descendants pray for his blessing and protection. To these nomads the mounds are the fixed points around which their migrations range, the spiritual focus of their lives. A land without spirits is a no man’s land. Today the last of the spirit mounds of the Basotu Plains, the Barabaig’s critical wet season grazing lands, are being ploughed up by a development pr...