Tables Tennis, Athletics Resume Business

Table Tennis action will return this month after the lifting of the Greater Gaborone zone lockdown PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Table Tennis action will return this month after the lifting of the Greater Gaborone zone lockdown PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

After the lockdown setback on local sporting codes, the Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) and the Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) will return to competitive action starting this month.

The BTTA’s season was well under way with four rounds of the ‘Road to Finale’ played before the government ordered a two-week Greater Gaborone lockdown. BAA was to return on August 7 after a more than half-year hiatus.

Speaking to Monitor Sport, BAA vice president; Oabona Theetso said the association has scrapped two events from its initial schedule and now eyes September 5 for return to competitive action. “We have written to clubs to alert them that our program will be starting with a race on September 5.

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