David Macharia

3 weeks ago | peopledaily.digital | David Macharia

Mary Wacera Cooper is leaving nothing to chance as she intensifies her training for the Boston Marathon, set for April 21.  The 2022 silver medallist who is making her sixth appearance at the prestigious race says her main focus is to stay injury-free and make it to the starting line after last year’s setback forced her to withdraw from the Chicago Marathon at the last minute.

1 month ago | peopledaily.digital | David Macharia

Nyandarua has assembled a formidable squad of 60 athletes to represent the county at the Central Region Secondary Schools Athletics Championships set for this weekend in Thika, Kiambu County. The team, selected after a highly competitive county-level meet in Nyahururu, is determined to uphold Nyandarua’s reputation as an athletics powerhouse despite lacking a standard track within its borders. The competition is part of the Term One athletics and ball games.

1 month ago | peopledaily.digital | David Macharia

After serving as Athletics Kenya (AK) secretary for Nyandarua uninterrupted for 37 years, Lawrence Miano is finally ready to step aside and pave the way for new leadership when elections are held—a rare and unprecedented move in Kenyan athletics administration. Unprecedented because it is uncommon for officials in athletics to voluntarily relinquish their positions. “I want to hand over to new blood.

2 months ago | peopledaily.digital | David Macharia

Kenya’s athletics reputation faces yet another scandal as age cheating emerges as a lucrative black-market business, with parents allegedly paying up to Sh100,000 to falsify birth records for their gifted children. With the growing demand for scholarships in foreign schools, coaches, parents as well as corrupt officials are colluding to manipulate documents, allowing ineligible athletes to compete in junior categories.

2 months ago | peopledaily.digital | David Macharia

The widow of 2008 Olympic marathon champion Samuel Kamau Wanjiru has pleaded with the media to stop revisiting his tragic death, saying continued reports traumatise her two children, who are today old enough to follow the coverage and ask unsettling questions. Speaking in Nyahururu alongside her lawyers, Triza Njeri asked journalists to respect the family’s need for closure, as fresh revelations about Wanjiru’s estate and the decade-long inquest into his mysterious demise resurface.