The Kenyan national anthem was played eight times in Yaounde, Cameroon yesterday to celebrate her athletes who took all the individual and team gold medals on offer at the fourth CAA Africa Cross Country Champions in a mighty show of total dominance.

As police investigators renewed their probe into the money allegedly misappropriated at Athletics Kenya (AK), investigations which started last year have zeroed in on the contract between Nike and AK and the considerations involved.

Kenyan authorities believe the item on the Athletics Kenya (AK) - Nike contract known as Honororia was a cover for unauthorised kickbacks, which was eventually entered into the contract.

Athletics chiefs took on the Sports Cabinet Secretary, Hassan Wario, in a bare-knuckled response to the latter’s recent remarks about the administration of the sport.

It was one of the most difficult periods for Kenyan football. Yet it was the time that Kenyans had the biggest hope in their most popular sport.

Kenya’s first women world champion, Sally Barsosio, reacted with consternation to a reported confession by China’s former world record holder, Wang Junxia to doping during her days at the top of global athletics.

Coral Hays (pictured right) and Ledama Masidza, who were the first Kenyans to compete in the World championships biathlon/triathlon in Georgia last September, will receive specialised training in the hope of qualifying for the Rio Olympics.

“I don’t know what oath they took with these doctors,” Asbel Kiprop, a holder of one Olympic Games and three world 1,500m titles, muses as he gets down for an in-depth interview with FeverPitch. His stream of thought is informed by several Kenyan athletes who have been banned for doping among them two high profile road runners.

Kenya's three-time world 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop is in a state of excitement and trepidation.

Kenyans are concerned that a second report to be released today by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) could lead to the country’s suspension from international sports.

The entire global athletics leadership should take full responsibility for the doping upheavals in the sport, Kenya’s former three-time 3,000m steeplechase world champion, Moses Kiptanui, has said.

Athletics Kenya President Jack Tuwei said they will soon meet to name a provisional team for the Olympics “to beat the deadline for registration".

Kenya’s finest athletes of the season will be known this evening at a red-carpet black-tie gala at the Safari Park Hotel.

Be warned. Substances that sportspeople abuse to enhance their performance can tamper with performance on the home front, experts have said.

AK former president Isaiah Kiplagat, vice president David Okeyo and 2015 world championships team leader and former treasurer, Joseph Kinyua were suspended on Monday for 180 days “in the interests of the integrity of the sport”, the IAAF Ethics Commission commission said in a statement on Monday.

Athletics Kenya yesterday called an urgent executive committee meeting as reactions to the news that three of its bosses had been suspended by the world governing body, IAAF, reverberated across the country.

There is no systematic doping by Kenyan athletes and those suggesting that Kenya would be banned from international competition such as the Olympic Games, have an ulterior motive, a sports administrator said yesterday.

Kenya has been warned to take action against doping or face four-year ban from all international competitions. Kipchoge Keino, the National Olympic Committee of Kenya chair said the World Anti-doping Agency is very categorical on the matter.

With elections for the Football Kenya Federation coming in slightly over a month, gloves have been removed. Candidates are bare-knuckled, digging every skeleton in rivals’ closets.

Athletes Coral Hays and Ledama Masidza placed seventh out of nine competitors in the 2015 UIPM Biathle/Triathle World Championships in Georgia. The 16-year old participated in a triathle team relay in the competition that was held on September 18-20.

Football will only improve in East and Central African region if leaders have concrete agenda and structures for continuity for the game.

Kenyan companies have been challenged to invest in the central African region to expand trade and cultural ties between the Eastern and Central African countries.

Only one Kenyan Tae Kwo ndo player went beyond the first round after their controversial entry to the All Africa Games in Congo.

For John Mwithiga, the ‘commander in chief’ of the athletics coaching staff here in Brazzaville, the athletes had an exemplary performance.

Alice Aprot gave Kenya her fifth gold medal at the All Africa Games here on Wednesday evening

The door was slammed on the Tae Kwon do team entered by the Games Management Committee to represent Kenya at the All Africa Games

At 40 years and with several accolades and medals from national and continental competitions, David Kimutai says his body can’t take it anymore.

Curtains will come down on athletics competition here today, with Kenya highly-tipped to carry the men’s 5,000m and both half-marathon gold medals.

The team that was regarded as second string side upset the form book and won the gold medal as the All Africa Games women’s volleyball competition ended here on Monday evening.

Grace Wanjiru gave Kenya her third track-and-field gold, which was the fourth gold medal overall after defying biting early morning cold around the Concorde Sports Complex yesterday.

The goose that lays the golden eggs did not disappoint. Athletics announced Kenya’s presence at the Africa Games loud and clear when the track and field competition started here on Sunday. Not only did the Kenyan girls sweep all the medals in the 5,000m, they predictably ran away with gold and silver in the men’s 3,000m steeplechase.

Team Kenya officials have raised the alarm over theft of property at the Kasarani camp where the team stayed before coming to Brazzaville for the Games.

Kenyan sprinters dashed to the next rounds of their races when the athletics programme started here yesterday morning inside the Concorde Complex.

Boxers added two bronze medals to Kenya’s haul at the All Africa Games although Nick Okoth and Elly Ajowi lost their semi-final bouts at the Talangai Hall on Friday evening. Light weight Okoth lost to Algerian Reda Bendaziz on points while Ajowi lost on a third round technical knock out to Nigeria's Efe Tobor Apochi, ending boxers’ ambition at the Brazzaville Games.

For athletics purists, the Games are just about to begin. So everybody should pack their paraphernalia and troop to the Concorde Complex, the epicentre of the Games competition, ready to witness fierce athletics competition from today evening.

Kenya’s successful hunt for medals in these All Africa Games continued on Thursday with Mercy Obiero bagging three bronze

Rebecca Kamau finished in fifth position in the 200m individual medley race, an event won by legendary Zimbawean Kirsty Coventry on Thursday evening. Kamau timed 2:20.40 with Coventry (2:16.05), South African pair Marlies Ross and Rene Warnes in 2:17.57 and 2:18.98 and Rwioda Heshem of Egypt in 2:19.76. Hamdan Bayusuf was sixth best in the men’s 100m backstroke, in 1:00.47, way behind another South African duo Richard Ellis and David de Villiers, who stopped the clock in 55.83 and 55.84. Two Egyptians — Mohamed Samy (55.84) and Mohamed Khaled (56.31) — followed, while an Algerian Riyad Djendouci was fifth. In the women’s 50m freestyle, won by Farida Osman in 25.12 with South Africa’s Karin Prinsloo in second position, Sylvia Brunlehner finished sixth in 26.92. The 4x100m medley mixed team finished sixth behind Egypt, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tunisia and Algeria. In Kenya’s team were Bayusuf, Kamau, Issa Abdellah and Brunlehner. No Kenyan qualified for the final of men’s

It was a culture shock for many Kenyan athletes here who confirmed what has generally been a bad rumour back home that monkey meat is a delicacy among the Congolese.

Nick Okoth proceeded to the quarter-finals of the boxing competition after dispatching his Cameroonian opponent Tchwem Foukoua in the lightweight category at the Talangai Hall on Monday evening.

Kenya’s Rebecca Kamau finished fifth in the 200m freestyle final in 2:07.03, on Monday. The race was won by Karin Prinsloo of South Africa in 2:00.14.