Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that Kenyan runners are some of the fastest and most awarded in the world. Names like Eliud Kipchoge and David ...

Nestled six hours northwest of Nairobi, Kenya, sits the small town of Iten. At 8,000 feet above sea level, Iten is marked with lush vegetation and striped with Kenya's iconic red clay roads. Running ...

Rebecca Cheptegei loved chickens. She reared them and collected their eggs each morning. Her family would gently joke she loved them too much. “She was always laughing,” says her mother, Agnes. “You ...

The suspicions bubbled up as soon as she streaked across the finish line. Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich began fending off questions from skeptical reporters immediately after she ran a 2:09.56 to demolish ...

The town of Iten, perched on an escarpment in western Kenya a mile and a half above sea level, holds an elevated place in the sports world as a training ground for elite long-distance runners.

ITEN, Kenya: Thousands of feet above the Great Rift Valley that runs through East Africa, the small city of Iten, Kenya, calls itself the Home of Champions. It has long produced and attracted ...

Agnes Tirop was a 25-year-old rising professional distance runner who represented Kenya at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the women’s 5,000-meters. One month after she competed in her first Olympic Games, ...