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Faith Kipyegon running on the track in Kenyan colours during a championship race

Three-Tenths of a Second: Faith Kipyegon's Streak Ends in Eugene, and Monaco Gets the Reply

Nikki Hiltz outkicked the greatest miler of her generation on July 4 at Hayward Field. Kipyegon, nursing a hamstring since Shanghai, has already chosen her answer: a loaded 3,000m in Monaco on Friday.

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Floodlit football stadium at night with a green pitch and packed stands during a major match

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Inches From Glory: Senegal's Seattle Heartbreak and the Night Africa's World Cup Ran Out of Time

A 125th-minute penalty ended Senegal's run and made them the fourth African side to fall by a whisker in the last 32. For the continent's diaspora, a night of pride and heartbreak.

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Hayward Field stadium in Eugene, Oregon, home of the Prefontaine Classic, seen from the stands

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The Mile Comes Home: Faith Kipyegon and a Kenyan Fourth of July at Hayward Field

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Democratic Republic of Congo football supporters celebrate in the stands during an international match.

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The Stillness in the Stands: How a US Visa Wall Kept Africa's Fans Away From Its Own World Cup

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Young men play a seven-a-side football match on a dusty open pitch in Wajir, northern Kenya.

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The Goal Beyond the Goalposts: How a Meru Football Final Became Kenya's Pitch for Jobs Abroad

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A lone athlete running on a red synthetic athletics track, lanes curving into the distance

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So Close, and Yet: Kenya's Distance Dynasty Comes Up Just Short on a Record-Breaking Night in Paris

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A red athletics running track with marked lanes curving around a stadium

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The Long Way Home to Make the Team: How US Collegiate Runners Carried Kenya's Diaspora to Glasgow

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Pedestrians walk a sunlit European city street toward a church during a summer heatwave

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The Red Alert Over Charléty: How a Record French Heatwave Nearly Silenced the Paris Meet Kenya's Runners Live For

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Runners in spikes round a bend on a red athletics track during a competitive race

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The Record That Could Not Outrun the Test: How Kibiwott Kandie's Seven-Year Ban Reopens Kenya's Doping Wound

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An empty red outdoor athletics track with starting blocks and white lane markings under daylight

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The Jet Lag They Ran Through: How America's College Tracks Quietly Built Part of Kenya's Glasgow Team

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Athletes compete in a track race at the athletics stadium during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

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The Scholarship That Runs Both Ways: How America's Kenyan College Stars Are Booking Tickets to Glasgow

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A packed football stadium filled with enthusiastic fans waving and cheering during a match.

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Home Soil, Far From Home: African Teams and Their Diaspora Light Up a North American World Cup

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A football resting on the green turf of a floodlit stadium pitch before kickoff

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A Father's Country, Another Country's Shirt: How Philipp Mwene Became Kenya's Third Son at a World Cup

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A large crowd of football fans fills a packed stadium during an international match under floodlights.

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From a Camp to a Stadium in Seattle: How Refugee and Diaspora Roots Are Quietly Rewriting the 2026 World Cup

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Footballers playing a match on a floodlit green pitch under stadium lights at night

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The Left-Back From Vienna: How a Kenyan Father's Son Wrote Himself Into World Cup History

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A young African football fan in national-team colours cheering from the stands at an international match

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The Goal That Came in Stoppage Time: How Ivory Coast's Late Heartbreak Hushed Africa's World Cup Watch Parties in America

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A sprinter crouches in the starting blocks on an athletics track, ready to race.

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The Track That Leads to Glasgow: How Kenya's Commonwealth Trials Stir a Diaspora Waiting in Scotland

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