Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: At this training ground in Kenya's Iten there was a sense of relief on Tuesday (September 10). Athletes here have learned ...

A new study reveals troubling mental health ramifications for Kenyan runners facing bans from the sport. Amid a major doping crisis that’s plagued the East African nation for decades, the research ...

Rebecca Cheptegei loved chickens. She reared them and collected their eggs each morning. Her family would gently joke she loved them too much. “She was always laughing,” says her mother, Agnes. “You ...

Members of a self-funded athletics club in Meru are proving that competition does not end with age.

BUKWO, Uganda (AP) — Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid their respects Saturday to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire. The military ...

NAIROBI — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner. She was 33. The country’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The body of Ugandan ...

Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid respects to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire, at a military funeral in a remote town near the ...