Mutwiri Mutuota
When AJ Auxerre and Harambee Stars striker , Denis Oliech hit the streets of Nairobi two years ago with an elegant top-of-the range Chrysler 300C SRT-8 Quick Spin, even this head turned in marvel.
And I was not the only one amazed at the powerful elegance the black sedan displayed as it glided along the [...]
By Feverpitch Reporter and Agencies
Paul Kirui and Lydia Cheromei ensured Kenyans ruled the 33rd edition of the ING Amsterdam Marathon with victories in the men’s and women’s races.
Kirui, 28, who won the 2004 World Half Marathon title, ran a tactical race in windy conditions to cut the tape first in 2:07.51.
“When I heard, after 37 [...]
NAIROBI (AFP) - Olympic 800m champion Pamela Jelimo late on Tuesday caused a big media stampede on arrival back home as the clamour to grab a piece of Kenya’s athletics millionaire nearly turned ugly.
Local and foreign journalists pushed and shoved each other to get a shot of the teenage sensation but were fought back by [...]
Thugs outrun Wanjiru in night raid
BY BERNARD MOMANYI
Seven armed gunmen on Friday night raided the home of Olympic Marathon Champion Samuel Wanjiru and demanded money.
Police said the thugs were armed with machetes and pistols when they stormed the star’s Nyahururu home and demanded a share of his fortunes from Beijing.
Wanjiru who returned to the [...]
First Lady salutes Olympic team
BY ROBIN NJOGU and PPS
First Lady Lucy Kibaki has commended Kenyan women athletes for their outstanding performance in the ongoing Beijing Olympic Games.
In a personal message, the First Lady said Pamela Jelimo and Janeth Jepkosgei who on Monday won Gold and Silver medals respectively made Kenyans very proud.
She said: “Congratulations [...]
By ELIAS MAKORI in Beijing
In Summary
1) 18-year-old Jelimo has come into the Olympics with a season’s best time of one minute, 54.97 seconds
2) Mozambique’s veteran Maria de Lourdes Mutola also made it to Saturday’s semi-finals with the fastest time in the heats
Kenya’s world champion Janeth Jepkosgei and world number one this season Pamela Jelimo broke [...]
Jelimo rouses camp
By Omulo Okoth
The Kenyan camp here was thrown in a frenzy on Wednesday evening. Pamela Jelimo, whose gold medal chances in the women’s 800m is highly likely, made an unexpected arrival accompanied by 1,500m runner Nicholas Kemboi, sending the camp into an ecstatic celebration.
The two joined the other runners in the [...]
BY EDDY KIMANI
A lot will be on the mind of Mathare United coach Francis Kimanzi this week, as he plots how to consolidate his squad’s position at the top of the Kenya Premier League table, after losing to World Hope in their last fixture.
With only a single point separating Mathare and second placed Sony Sugar, [...]
Kenyas Best
By William ODuor
Kenya urgently needs a leader who can articulate issues affecting the countrys progress in a simple language. A leader who is able to share with the people NOT from a prepared speech but original ideas. Great leaders doesnt read prepared speaches. We need a leader who can directly communicate his vision [...]
Story by RICHARD MWANGI
Anthony Napunyi will be the main card in the Sparks Pro-Boxing Promotion debut when he faces Tanzania’s Antony Matheus in a super-bantamweight duel at the Wab Hotel in Buru Buru, Nairobi, on Saturday.
Napunyi went through the amateur ranks boxing for Prisons, like his father, the late Modesty Oduori Napunyi. [...]
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