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Kiprotich a doubt, Cheptegei going for double Kampala, Uganda| THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | Former World and Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich is battling to be fit in time for the London World Athletics Championship. A Ugandan athletics official confirmed Kiprotich is a doubt, saying his preparations since his last race …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  British athletics superstar Mo Farah eased to victory in the 3000 metres at the Diamond League meet in the London Stadium on Sunday and said off the track matters didn’t concern him. The 34-year-old — a quadruple Olympic and world champion having achieved the …

Ugandan top distance ace Joshua Cheptegei finished third in the 5000m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, in an impressive personal best time of 12:59.83. The time is well inside his season best of 13:02.84, and previous personal best of  13:00.60 and saw him qualify for the 5000m …

  Uganda’s top distance runner Joshua Cheptegei continued his stready return to the track with yet another 4th place finish, this time in the 3ooom at the Paris Diamond Athletics League on Saturday night. In front of 14,568 spectators  at Charléty Stadium, Cheptegei clocked 7:34.96 to finish fourth in a race …

Ostrava, Czech Republic | AFP |  Usain Bolt racked up a straightforward 100m victory on the European bow of his farewell season, but likely successor Wayde van Niekerk stole the headlines in Ostrava with a world record in the little-run 300m. Bolt struggled with a stiff back and a pedestrian …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Former world cross country champion Agnes Tirop beat training partner Irene Cheptai to win the women’s 10,000 metres on the first day of the Kenyan world championship trials on Friday. Tirop, winner of the women’s senior cross country title in Guiyang, China in 2015, sprinted …

Eugene, United States | AFP |  Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah fired a warning shot to his rivals with the fastest time of the year after powering to victory in the 5,000m at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday. The British long distance king, racing in a track …

Uganda’s top distance runner Joshua Cheptegei marked his return to the track with an impressive 4th place finish in a star-studded 5000 Metres Prefontaine Classic race on Saturday. Cheptegei’s time of  13:02.84 is a season best for him, but the 20-year-old can run faster. He was 2 seconds short of his …

Eugene, United States | AFP |  Russian hurdler Sergey Shubenkov is among around 10 athletes who have been prevented from competing in this weekend’s Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting because of visa problems, race officials said Friday. Tom Jordan, director of the prestigious two-day meeting at Eugene, said 2015 110m …

Eugene IAAF Diamond League Today: 5,000m 11.30pm Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei gets a chance to put his athletics season back on track when he runs against double Olympic 5,000m – 10,000m Champion Mo Farah and two-time World Cross Country king Geoffrey Kamworor at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on Saturday. Cheptegei, …