She maintained that dope test failure or not, she will not be forced to retire from what she loves doing so much, stressing that she will not dump the sport just because there is a problem.

With his ‘Lightning Bolt’ poses, play acting for the cameras and care free attitude, he delighted fans at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, but Usain Bolt is very serious when it comes to sprinting.

IT is like us, we are again throwing money at a problem that we created. The idea that qualifying for the 2010 World Cup is being pursued as if it is the major problem of Nigeria is becoming obscene. Worse still, the interventions that are coming from bodies like the Presidential Task Force on the World Cup have exposed our level of preparedness for the decisive game against Tunisia.

AS the zero hour approaches swiftly for the all important 2010 World Cup cracker between the Super Eagles and the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia on September 6, Coach Amodu Shuaibu confessed yesterday that he may be sacked if the Eagles fail to fly past the North Africans.

The Presidential Task Force for Nigeria’s 2010 World Cup qualification yesterday confirmed that 36 governors, all the federal ministers, captains of industries and President Umaru Musa Yar‘Adua would be present for the special dinner at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, this evening.

Jamaica’s Minister for Tourism is expecting “rich rewards” for the country’s tourism industry as a direct result of the performances of its athletes at the World Athletics Championships.

Former president Nelson Mandela Wednesday met track champion Caster Semenya and South Africa’s two other world athletics medallists, a day after they were given a rapturous welcome on their return home from Berlin.

Public Mobilization and Awareness Committee for the 2009 Under-17 World Cup has decried the lateness in mobilising Nigerians for the cadet games coming up in Nigeria between October 24 and November 10, 2009.

The sustenance of squash in Nigeria got a remarkable boost when the Cargolux squash tournament was held at the Lagos Country Club which makes it the biggest squash tournament held in Nigeria this year.

Nigeria left Berlin without a medal but Patrick Ekeji did with a symbolic one.The Director-General of the National Sports Commission arrived here towards the end of the World Athletics Championship and in his two-day stay he achieved what he hopes could transform to gold medals for Nigeria in big meets.