Development must be a collective endeavour

The curtains came down on the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Championships in London, England, on Sunday last, with the usual massive crowd in attendance bidding official farewell to both Usain Bolt and Mo Farah. In the previous Column we addressed the fact that they left active competition in different styles but their […]

Farah and Bolt end careers differently

  The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) biennial World Championships in London, United Kingdom, was promoted around the end of the careers of Britain’s Mo Farah and Jamaica’s Usain Bolt. Of course, given his outstanding achievements over the past nine years it was Bolt that received more of the attention. After all, it is […]

The dawn of a new era in international athletics

Recent developments in the sport of athletics have left many asking themselves whether or not we are at the dawn of a new era. Former middle distance running sensation, Sebastian Coe of Great Britain emerged victorious in the recent elections of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), defeating another former world champion athlete, Sergey […]

IAAF’s day of shame in Daegu

While in the recent past the focus has been on the international governing body for football (FIFA) the evidence seems to suggest that the situation is far more widespread. The situation today is not significantly different from what the author of Lords of the Rings (an expose on the modus operandi of some of the […]