Chairman of Akwa United Football club, Isong Isang has said the club’s relegation from the Premier League does not signify that the club will not bounce back to Premier league next season.

General Manager of 3SC, Mutui Adepoju has corrected the notion that the former coach Franklin Howard was sacked and replaced by coach Philip Boamah, despite leading the team back to the elite division.

Big-name athletes continue to fall off the roster of those competing at the IAAF World Championships, which begin in Saturday in Berlin.

The World Championships in Athletics will be subject to the most comprehensive anti-doping program ever conducted by the IAAF – including both drug testing and educational activities. More than 1000 samples will be collected, both before and during the competition in Germany.

The IAAF Congress on Wednesday approved a new rule that will disqualify athletes the first time they false start in any given race. The rule will take effect January 1, 2010.
The rule will replace the current false-start policy of the first false-start being charged to the entire field, with only subsequent false-starts resulting in disqualification.