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National athletics technical committee head Faustin Kiwa is in Kapchorwa to preside over the selection of the final team to the World Cross Country championships. The event is due March 28 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

NAMIBIAN 400-meter runner Tjipekapora Herunga maintained her good form at the third meet of the Yellow Pages Series, as she finished in second place in Potchefstroom on Friday. This is Herunga's second successive second place finish at the series.

Irregular weather at St Mark's Teachers Training College is not worrying head coach David Leting as he prepares the national team for the March 28 World Cross Country Championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

11 March 2010 – Doha, Qatar - The traditional IAAF  and Local Organising Committee (LOC) Press Conference on the eve of the opening day of the 13th World Indoor Championships was held this afternoon at the Headquarters of the Qatari Olympic Committee.

UPCOMING athletes will have more to compete for at the first national trials at Namboole on Saturday. The local athletics body UAF has announced that all athletes who will qualify for the Africa Senior track and field championships will travel to Nairobi for the event due in August.

11 March 2010 - Abu Dhabi, UAE - Usain Bolt was named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the second straight time at a gala ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

11 March 2010 –Competitors in the second indoor meet of the season in China held in Nanjing from Wednesday to Thursday (10 – 11 March) naturally didn’t feature in the Chinese team for the World Indoor Championships as they have travelled to Doha already. But there still were a few stars in this meet with 22-year-old Su Xiongfeng rising to a new level in the men’s Long Jump.

11 March 2010 – 2008 Double Olympic medallist Jared Tallent and former World champion and World record holder Nathan Deakes will lead an 18-strong Australian team into action at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico, 15/16 May.

Athletics Kenya has challenged the 12km senior men's team to this year's World Cross Country Championship to break the duck and win the individual race title in Bydgozcsc, Poland.

Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones signs a contract to play with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock in a bid to revive her athletic career.

The president of the angolan paralympic committee, Leonel da Rocha Pinto, is bound to Vancouver (Canada) to attend the congress of the international paralympic committee(IPC), from February 12 to 21.

Former world champion Dorcus Inzikuru has told girls in Hoima that with discipline and hard work they can surpass her achievements.

10 March 2010 - The inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will take place in Singapore this August and qualifying for the athletics competition begins this coming weekend.

Former national track star Boniface Kiprop has impressed national coach Gordon Ahimbisibwe who believes the athlete will be on the team to the World Cross Country championships due in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz on March 28.

TEKWANE High School dominated the Methodist Schools track and field events at Chemhanza High School in Hwedza last Saturday.

9 March 2010 - Doha, Qatar - This preview of the women's events at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Doha, Qatar (12-14 March) is based on entry information received by the IAAF but before the official start lists have been decided.

9 March 2010 - Doha, Qatar - This preview of the men's events at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Doha, Qatar (12-14 March) is based on entry information received by the IAAF but before the official start lists have been decided.

Interclube won Saturday in Gabela city, central Kwanza Sul province, the national 42-kilometre senior men's relay championship of athletics with 02.17 hours.

9 March 2010 - None of the three women's Combined Events medallists from Valencia 2008 will be competing at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, Doha, Qatar (12-14 March 2010) but it’s nevertheless a high standard competition where results should be even better than two years ago.

Kenya's team to the World Indoor Championship leaves on Tuesday for Doha, confident of doing well at the global competition.