6 Kenyan Stars of all time who failed to win Olympic gold
Paul Tergat [Standard]
Some of his iconic performances include 16 victories out of 18 races in 1994 and the fastest time that year- a sub-1:44 that is yet to be matched by any other athlete to date.
Seventeen years since he hanged his spikes, Kipketer is still the second-fastest athlete of all time over 800 metres. During his prime on the track, Kipketer set the world record then later broke his own record, twice, all in 1997.
He was undefeated for three-year consecutive years. He ran eight of the 17 currently all-time fastest times. His was a complete dominance of the distance, a reign that lasted over a decade But despite winning successive World titles in 1995, 1997 and 1999, Kipketer never won an Olympic gold during his career.
Newly engaged track star Asbel Kiprop plotting return to competition May 8th 2021 at 18:00:00 GMT +0300
Olympic and World 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop was always seen as a strong man, or so he seemed. That was until his world turned upside down after he was implicated in doping and banned from athletics. If anything, it confirmed the truth in the popular quote that “the worst part of being strong is that no one asks if you are okay.”
Soon after he was banned after failing an out-of-competition test, video footage emerged of him with another woman in his car fondling and kissing, illustrating the depths he had sunk to.
Mandago said the 5km fun race will also be staged in the Sunday race.
“The new date will be on June 6. We are inviting all athletes who had earlier registered (for the race) to turn up next month. Registration is still ongoing for those who had not registered,” Mandago said.
Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago addressing the press at his office in Eldoret on Thursday 6, May 2021. [Christopher Kipsang, The Standard]
Eldoret Marathon race director Moses Tanui said the LOC is ready to stage the race during the new date.
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The two-time Boston Marathon winner thanked President Uhuru Kenyatta for reviewing the COVID-19 guidelines to allow sporting events to take place.
His engagement comes two years after the star athlete endured a bitter fallout with his then wife Sammary Cherotich.
The fallout came after Kiprop filmed himself kissing and groping an unidentified woman’s breasts inside a car. It is at about that time that he was also suspended from competing over reported doping offences.
All that now seems to be in the distance as the former 1,500m Olympic champion appears to have moved on.
“Today I’m officially engaged to Faith. I thank all who attended the function at Simat. Looking forward to the next chapter in life,” he said.
The Greatest Race You’ve Never Heard Of
By Jonathan Gault
February 1, 2015
(Editor’s note: Sunday, February 1, 2015, marks the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest race finishes in track and field history – the final of the 1990 Commonwealth Games 5000. We became aware of the race while reading this messageboard thread last year: Best come from behind wins ever – and decided to the research necessary to tell the story of the epic race).
As the 14 finalists toed the line on February 1, 1990, for the final of the men’s 5,000 meters at the Commonwealth Games, there was no indication that the fans in Auckland’s Mount Smart Stadium were about to witness one of the most exciting races of all time. A Kenyan sweep seemed the most likely outcome: Kenyan