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 »

Ghana’s heptathlon star Margaret Simpson-Senya is a fine encouragement to women who entertain the sad notion that competitive sports could make them infertile. The versatile athlete of seven disciplines broke her athletics career in 2006 to have a baby and her brilliant winning form in the just ended Africa Athletics championships in Kenya should be good news for all sportswomen, especially those in my part of the world, to shun the superstition that sports would deny them the chance of having babies. more »

Jamaican sprints sensation Usain Bolt reminds me of Ghana’s Mike Ahey, one of the finest athletes the West African state has produced. The antics and mannerisms of Bolt are quite similar to those of Ahey in his hey days in the 60s. He added colour and splendour to track and field just like the affable Bolt is doing. Both have similar height except that Bolt has more flesh on his body. 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 »