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Kenia's Dennis Kimetto crosses the finish line to win the Berlin marathon in a world record time in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday Sept. 28, 2014.( Kimetto set a new world record of 2h, 2min and 57 seconds. (AP Photo/dpa/Rainer Jensen) The Associated Press Dennis Kimetto knocked 26 seconds off the world marathon record Sunday as the sub-two hour mark moved a step closer. The 30-year-old Kenyan won the 41st edition of the Berlin Marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes, 57 seconds, becoming the first man to complete a marathon in under 2 hours, 3 minutes. The previous record of 2:03:23 was set by another Kenyan, Wilson Kipsang, in Berlin last year. "I feel good today for today is a big day for me," Kimetto said. "The fans made me confident and I thought I could do it." Second-placed Emmanuel Mutai also beat the previous record, finishing in 2:03:13, and he believes a two-hour marathon is possible. "From what I saw today, times are coming d

Tanzania haitashiriki michezo ya soka  kimataifa hadi mwaka 2016 kutokana na timu yake ya  vijana  wa umri chini ya miaka 23  kutoshiriki michuano ya kusaka  tiketi ya kushiriki Olimpiki  msimu wa 2015/2016. Kukosekana kwa timu hiyo ya U-23 kunaweza kuwa uzembe  wa Shirikisho la Soka Tanzania (TFF). Katika ratiba iliyotolewa juzi na Shirikisho la Soka  Afrika (CAF), pazia la michuano hiyo litafunguliwa Desemba. Katika michuano hiyo, raundi ya kwanza  Rwanda itaanza kukata utepe kwa kumenyana na Somalia wakati Kenya itacheza na Zambia au Botswana. Kikosi hicho mara ya mwisho kilishiriki michezo ya  Afrika mwaka 2011,  kikiwa chini ya Jamhuri Kihwelo ‘Julio’ na kiliondolewa mapema kwenye michuano hiyo na Nigeria.  Hata hivyo, U-23 haitashiriki michuano hiyo kwa vile Tanzania haikuthibitisha ushiriki wake huku viongozi wa juu wa TFF wakikwepa kulizungumzia  suala hilo.

Mwanza City Mayor Stanslaus Mabula Mwanza City Mayor Stanslaus Mabula has become the first participant to register for the Rock City half Marathon expected to be held at the CCM Kirumba Stadium on October 26. The mayor opted for a five-kilometres race while inaugurating the registration process in Mwanza yesterday, where he said he will showcase his skills and ability in athletics during the D-Day.   He also urged other athletes from all over the country to turn out in the fast growing event that not only promotes youths’ talents, but also opens doors to many opportunities for the Lake Zone region.   ‘We want to use this tournament to revive athletics in our town and have a ripple effect countrywide. Athletics should go back to its noble position as it was in 1970’s during the era of (Selemani) Nyambui and Filbert Bayi; therefore I strongly urge athletes from all regions to participate because it will help them and as we say sports is no longer an entertainm

Kijitonyama Tennis Academy OVER 80 junior players are expected to compete at the inaugural Kijitonyama Academy’s three-day tennis tournament in Dar es Salaam that starts on October 11.   One of the event’s organisers Inger Njau said players expected to are from Arusha ICC, Morogoro Gymkhana, Bahari Beach, Mkuranga, Dar es Salaam Gymkhana and hosts.     ‘The academy has organised a tournament for junior players next month, this will be the first time the academy is hosting a tournament, we have organised this so that we can give our players the opportunity to expose their talents,’ she said.      The academy has been formed with the objective of improving tennis in the country having onboard coaches  Ismail Saidi, Francis Simon, Rabbi Hassan, Hassan  Kassim and  Musa Haruna.   Head coach of the academy Haruna recently said  it has been formed after noting that there are many youngsters who are interested in playing the game , but don’t have a proper pla

TOC secretary general Filbert Bayi Government and sports associations which represented the country at the 2014 Scotland Games and Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) will meet on Tuesday in Kibaha for the postmortem of the athlete’s results at Glasgow games.  TOC secretary general Filbert Bayi said in an interview yesterday that the meeting has been organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation which financed local athlete’s foreign training camps prior to the Games. He said those expected to attend the meeting are top officials from Ministry For Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, National Council (NSC), officials of national sports associations, coaches and athletes who competed at the Scotland Games. ‘It will be like a postmortem of the Scotland Games, this meeting was called by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Bernard Membe whose presence has been confirmed, also the Minister For Information, C

England cricket coach Ashley Giles (right) talks with cricketer Moeen Ali during past training session in Chittagong. He is among former cricket stars expected to compete in a charity tournament opening on Saturday at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. PHOTO | FILE  When you’re climbing Africa’s tallest mountain to play the world’s highest game of cricket, you’d better make sure you’ve got a spare ball. England spin bowler Ashley Giles, along with 30 other trekkers including South African fast bowler icon Makhaya Ntini, have made sure they’ll be prepared by carrying up 24 balls -- as well as pads, helmets, stumps and an entire plastic pitch. “It’s a crazy challenge,” Giles told AFP, while trekking to the top of Kilimanjaro to play the game in its ice-covered crater, just below the 5,895 metre (19,341 feet) summit. If successful, the game in northern Tanzania will beat the current record by over 600 metres (1,968 f

Recovery gets more important the older you get. Photo: FCG/Shutterstock.com It’s not the training we do that counts; it’s the training from which we can recover. Training provides a stimulus (our workouts) that triggers an adaptation: better fitness. But that adaptation doesn’t happen overnight. Rush the process, and you invite overtraining syndrome, along with the impaired performance and injuries that accompany it. “I was once asked to write a scientific article on overtraining,” says coach Jack Daniels, whose book Daniels’ Running Formula has been called the Bible of the sport. “My response was that’s the simplest article ever. It’s two words long: Avoid it.” Overtraining in younger athletes generally results from an extended period of running too hard, too long, or a combination of both. In masters runners, a single instance of two hard workouts in a row without adequate recovery can do the