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Africa 1,500 metres champion Haron Keitany will lead Kenya's men's charge at the 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha this weekend, according to the Kenyan Daily Nation's Jonathan Komen.

Nigerian sprinter Franca Ene Idoko-Isaac is up for a new challenge after having been out of competition for almost two years to have her baby.

A year and a half ago, UTEP track coach Bob Kitchens assumed he had seen the last of Blessing Okagbare in a Miner uniform.

Tomorrow’s 68th edition of the Internationales Stadionfest DKB-ISTAF will present some of the meeting’s strongest entry lists ever and a highly dramatic kick-off in the fight for the jackpot of the ÅF Golden League, filled with one million US-dollars in Gold.

Mary Onyali Omagbemi canvasses more exposure and opportunities for Nigerian athletes in this interview with NEXT's Yemi Olus at the National Sports Festival in Kaduna.

When Meseret Defar smashed the World indoor 5000m record* on Wednesday, running 14:24.37 in Stockholm, it confirmed a stellar start to the year after a 2008 that saw her lose both her outdoor World record and 2004 Olympic gold medal over the distance to fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba.

Athletes Uche Isaac and Franca Idoko explains how they found love, got married and their new challenges.

In her determination to halt the spiral fall in the standard of athletics at all levels, Olympic medallist, Falilat Ogunkoya, yesterday began a revolution by sponsoring a three-day championship to discover new talents. Ogunkoya told Nigeria's Guardian newspapers OLUKAYODE THOMAS why she embarked on the project.