South Korea may be gradually but unnoticeably gaining the reputation for making and unmaking champions in athletics especially the 100 metres dash. You will recall how the famous Jamaican born Canadian Ben Johnson rose to fame in the 1988 Seoul Olympics only to be brought from grace to grass for taking banned drugs. more »

The sporting fraternity in Ghana is visibly disturbed about the apparent falling standards of athletics in the country. No wonder some leading figures of the sport recently met in Accra, to seek new ways of breathing life back into a sport which once gave the country its eminent place. more »