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21ST NIGERIA NNPC/MOBIL TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS - DAY THREE 26TH JUNE, 2010

Reigning Nigerian women's sprint champion, Blessing Okagbare and 2008 men's 100m champion, Obinna Metu both won their respective events comfortably on the 2nd day of the 21st Nigeria NNPC/Mobil Track and Field Championships in Calabar, Cross Rivers State.

Selim Nurudeen (110mHurdles, 13.87secs) and William Kefas (10,000m, 30:48.28) are early winners on Day 1 of the 21st ExxonMobil Nigeria Track and Field Championships cum Commonwealth Games/African Senior Athletics Trials in Calabar, Cross River State.

Here we go again, it's the time of the year isn't it. The World Cross Country Championships is here again, and as usual the campaign of calumny against the IAAF and African successes at these championships is at full flow.

A lot has been said and written about Caster Semenya's gender issues since the South African teenager won the women's 800m title at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin last summer, but one thing missing in all these media reports is the most obvious of all.

With the IAAF's qualification deadline of 3 August 2009  for the submission of final entries for relay teams fast approaching, Kenya and Nigeria relay teams head to Germany in last gasp efforts to make the World Championships 'A' standards.

Eurosport and Rai Sport Più reporting from Bressanone/Brixen. The World Youth Championships 2009 will be broadcast comprehensively live on TV.

The international athletics federation IAAF has received Mexico’s late registration for 18 athletes. At last 180 nations will now participate at the WYC Südtirol 2009 as concerns over their participation because of the recent swine flu epidemic in the country has now been put to rest.

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has confirmed the listed events for the IAAF Abuja Super Grand Prix meet scheduled for July 18, 2009 in the Nigerian capital city.