The 58th Indian National Championships held last week, and one of the major highlights of the championship was Sreeshankar Murali’s 8.20m leap in the men’s Long Jump.

The 2018 Youth Olympic Games will be hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 6th to 18th, and 100 athletes will represent Africa in Track and Field at the competition. These athletes were selected based on their performance at the African Youth Games which took place in Algeria in July.

Nigerian athletes who were hosted to a dinner by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday night following their exploits at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, are at daggers drawn with Athletics Federation of Nigeria officials after their transportation allowance was cut.

African Senior Athletics Championships, local organizing committee chairman, Solomon Ogba, said new standards will be set in hosting the Asaba 2018 championships.

African 100m record holder, Olusoji Fasuba has revealed his frustration with Nigeria’s inability to produce world class sprinters after he quit the scene.