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A little over 10 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that the young girl hanging out at tennis courts with barely enough to eat would become one of sub-Saharan Africa’s top female players.
Angella Okutoyi is now Kenya's best tennis player, and her struggle to deal with

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Kenya’s Angella Okutoyi, rose from an orphanage to tennis stardom.

Kenya’s Angella Okutoyi, rising from an orphanage to tennis glory: 'My breakthrough is quite a good story'

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Simone

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Armand

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Mikaela

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Ilia

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Ferdinand OMANYALA

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Still having the post-Olympics blues? There are plenty of options to recap the outstanding athletic moments in our Paris 2024 replays.
But you can also enjoy more track and field action at the 2024 Rome Diamond League.
On August 30, three of the men who lined up when Noah Lyles

Athletics | Wanda Diamond League | Rome

PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 04: Kishane Thompson of Team Jamaica competes during the Men's 100m Semi-Final on day nine of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 04, 2024 in Paris, France.  (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Kishane Thompson 

2024 Rome Diamond League: Preview, schedule

As always, there are big expectations for the men’s 100m at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Can Italy's Marcell Jacobs defend his Olympic title to match American Carl Lewis and Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt, the only other men to have won multiple gold medals in the 100m at the

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Ferdinand Omanyala, Noah Lyles and Marcell Jacobs are among stars who will compete in the men's 100m at Paris 2024.

Paris 2024: Men’s 100m preview

Femke Bol, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, and Keely Hodgkinson shone amid the gloom in Hengelo at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games on Sunday (7 July).
All eyes were on Dutch sensation Bol to see whether she could get close to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s world lead of 48.75 seconds over the flat 400m.
Poor weather

Femke Bol was among the winners at the FBK Games in Hengelo

FBK Games 2024: Victories for Bol, Camacho-Quinn and Hodgkinson

It took Faith Kipyegon just two races, six months into the season, to affirm that she is still the standard-setter Kenya.
Hours after securing an Olympic quota in the 5000m, the double Olympic champion led from gun to tape in a dominant display of 1500m running at the Kenyan Athletics

Faith Kipyegon reacts after winning the 1500m at the Kenya Athletics Trials at the Nyayo National Stadium.

2024 Kenya Athletics Olympic Trials: Faith Kipyegon does double

Faith Kipyegon and Beatrice Chebet clinched their respective spots on the Kenyan women’s 5000m team for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 during the first of two days at the Kenya Athletics Trials at Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi on Friday (14 June).
Kipyegon, the two-time Olympic 1500m champion and world

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: Gold medalist Faith Kipyegon of Team Kenya celebrates with their gold medal on the podium after the Women's 5,000m Final during day nine of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 at National Athletics Centre on August 27, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images for World Athletics)

Faith Kipyegon won the 5000m at the Kenyan Trials

Faith Kipyegon claims statement win in 5000m at Kenyan Olympic Trials

The cream of Kenyan athletics will be at the Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi on 14 and 15 June to battle for places at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games*.
Athletics Kenya has invited about 280 athletes across track and field events to try and book a berth for Paris, provided they

Athletics Kenya Track and Field Championships 2024 preview: Full schedule, and how to watch live action

Kenya Track and Field Paris Olympic Trials: Preview, schedule, how to watch live action

Jamaica’s Oblique Seville surprised Noah Lyles at the home Racers Grand Prix as he beat the 100m world champion with a personal best – and a world lead – within weeks of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
The 23-year-old crossed the finish line of the men’s 100m race in a

Oblique Seville set a world lead of 9.82 seconds at a home meet in Kingston, Jamaica on 1 June.

Oblique Seville beats Noah Lyles to set new world lead in men's 100m

Christian Coleman returned to winning ways in the 100m at the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday (25 May).
The American made his trademark fast start with Ferdinand Omanyala trying to keep pace. The Kenyan made inroads into the 2019 world champion's lead inside the last 20m,

Coleman line

Prefontaine Classic: Christian Coleman wins Diamond League 100m

This year’s Prefontaine Classic on Saturday 25 May at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field in Eugene will be headlined by some of the best track and field athletes.
Olympic and world champions are set to line up for exciting rematches in the women’s 800m, and there's a stacked field

The fastest woman in the world, Sha’Carri Richardson will be back on the Diamond League Series in Eugene in the 100m.

Diamond League Prefontaine Classic 2024: Preview, schedule.

While Ferdinand Omanyala's sporting roots can be traced back to his beloved rugby, it's actually in errand-running where the Kenyan sprinter first displayed his speed.
"He'd run so fast any time you sent him on an errand," says his mother, Adelaide Omurwa, laughing. "He was one hard-working yet happy child."

Ferdinand OMANYALA

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