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World Relays debacle: Athletics enters murky territory

Fire-fighting: Theetso PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO 	   Flashback: The victorious 4x400 men’s relay team
Fire-fighting: Theetso PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO Flashback: The victorious 4x400 men’s relay team

It reads like a script plucked straight out of Lekidi Centre but the setting is on the track rather than the field of play. The Botswana Athletics Association (BAA), which has in recent years emerged as the doyen of Botswana sport, now finds itself in unfamiliar murky waters after three athletes dropped a bombshell on the eve of a premier world athletics event, reports Staff Writer MQONDISI DUBE

The Botswana Football Association (BFA) has become a reference point for disputes over allowances. Successive Zebras generations have been at loggerheads with the association for failing to timeously honour financial obligations.

This week, it was the turn of athletics, as Oabona Theetso, the BAA vice president-administration had a busy week trying to put out the fires in the media.

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