The IAAF medical and judicial commission is set to come out with a true definition of a female athlete after the gender row involving the South African runner cast a shadow on the women 800m race at the Berlin 2009 World Championships. The race was effortlessly won by the 18-year-old Semenya, but the world of athletics hardly accepted the victory as the IAAF admitted that it has carried out a gender test on Semenya.

THE biggest challenge our sports face is that the sports authorities do not know the enormity of the problems before them. Anyone one of them you ask would proffer that once he gets enough money (whoever gets enough money?) to run sports, all the problems would be over. In summary, poor funding is central to the challenges in sports.

In two separate discussions yesterday, two ex- internationals of repute said things that should interest the technical crew of Green Eagles headed by Shaibu Amodu.

Felix Anyansi Agwu made a remark on stage at the AIT/MTN Footballer of the Year Awards. It turned out to be a major issue on the occasion that was graced by many big shots in Nigerian football.

A thunderbolt from Abeiku Quansah was the difference as Ghana survived a late comeback from Hungary to book their place in the final of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009. Leading 2-0 with just under 20 minutes to go thanks to a first half brace from Dominic Adiyiah, Quansah’s 81st minute effort was sandwiched in between strikes from substitutes Marko Futacs and Balazs Megyeri.