Technology Embarrasses BAA

The challenge emanated from the absence of Tshepho Kelaotswe who is the only qualified timer in the country. BAA vice president, Kenneth Kikwe admitted to Monitor Sport that they were having a challenge with the timer. He said the machine was needed for qualifications in senior races of 100m and 800m while in the junior events, athletes could qualify for international competitions with a hand timer.

“The interface is not responding but people who usually operate it are absent. We have other people that we are still training to be timers. For the sake of progress we decided to use the old timing system. We could still have athletes qualifying, but the challenge would be when we have 100m runners finishing close to each other,” he said.