Carole Fuchs_Athle

How Qatar 🇶🇦 recruited athletes before that World Athletics Nationality Review panel's landmark decision to deny 11 applications - ** $5,000 to the local coach of the athlete. ** $5,000 directly to the family of the athlete. ** Monthly stipends directly to the athlete (about 2000 Qatari Dirhams, depending on the athlete's tier). ** Agent who connects the athletes could get a split with whatever comes to the coach. Not fixed price. A lot of the Nigerian athletes who have gone without trace, ended up in Qatar. Their coaches actively push them there because of the huge financial incentive to them. After WA's ruling last month, two promising Nigerian athletes still left for Doha a week after. One of the athletes won a title at the African Junior Championships last year, while the other is yet to represent the country. Some of these athletes believe they could wait for 5 years, run for the Qatari Athletics clubs, as long as they are paid. So when I said that World Athletics helped Nigeria with that ruling, it is true. Because in the last one month, three female athletes who were in Doha and exploring the switch option, have returned home, with the hope to fight for a place in Nigeria. It's a racket that some Nigerian coaches are actively pursuing (and it's rampant in one South West state), shipping out these young athletes in their teens. Some of them are brainwashed, and not given the chance to decide for themselves.

🚨🌍THE Africa Athletics Championship has been put on hold due to heavy downpour at University of Ghana, Accra. Awaiting official communication whether the remaining races wil continue after the rain or will be scheduled. #ASAC2026 #Accra2026 #FeelTheHeat

43.95s!!🔥🔥 HISTORY MAKER!!!!! Samuel Ogazi 🇳🇬 has just run a Personal Best (PB) of 43.95s to win the SEC men's 400m title in Auburn! He makes history as the first Nigerian to break 44 seconds in the event and also the first man to defend a SEC 400m title since Deon Leondore. He defeated Jordan Pierre who ran a PB of 44.12s and Jonathan Simms in 44.16s.

@glblathletichub And there's another Beckham in Guinea-Bissau!

Ugandan Long Jumper David Beckham Otim 🇺🇬 is arguably the best named athlete in global athletics.

Athletics Kenya will hold invitation-only trials from May 21–23 to select the national team that will represent the country at the 2026 World U20 Championships in Oregon, USA. @athletics_kenya Youth Development Department Director, @KorirOfficial , confirmed that Kenya can no longer conduct open trials following strict directives from World Athletics due to the doping menace and cases of age manipulation. #kenya #running #worldathletics

38.52 anchored by Cheikna Traore for 🇨🇮! Nigeria in 38.70 and Ghana in 38.74 in the men's 4x100m

@Bimbochan Mohamed Ali Gouaned, 4th of the 800m. ;-)

Look at this beautiful Algerian man. CAMERA GO BACKK

@Fentuo_ @Adeoye1992 @airendegregory So from Ivory Coast media, 3rd Marie-Jeanne Ourega CIV 6.70m It was quite a close contest.

This is what I got, but I don’t see who placed third in it, even though I saw and took a photo of an Ivorian lady who reportedly got bronze. She’s not even in the start list 🤦🏾 1. Nemata Nikiema (BUR) 🥇 – 6.76m
2. Marthe Koala (BUR) 🥈 – 6.75m 3. ??? 4. Ruth Usoro -6.69m 5. ??? 6.

We still don't know the outcome of the women's Long Jump final that took place at the African Athletics Championships. It's been more than 18 hours. 🤦🏽‍♂️

@rainnie_q Actually, I was wrong. There will be some results out today. athleticstiming.publicvm.com/result/african…

@carofux That means we wait till the end of the competition

Any source to official results for this championships? 😩

Yesterday was worse than the first day. I thought it couldn’t get worse but how wrong I was. I’ve never experienced this level of disorganization at any sporting event. From the way things are going, I won’t even be surprised if the entire results of this competition are rejected by World Athletics. Full video here: tinyurl.com/4ahc9jnf

Spoke with Rosemary Chukwuma on my way out of the stadium last night, and she was very distraught to learn it was a silver medal she won in the 100m. I understand that Nigeria will be told today, if they were successful with their appeal to have the GOLD medal awarded to Chukwuma. Nigeria asked for multiple camera angles of the photo-finish, but were only shown one angle. This led to Nigeria officially filing an appeal, and asked for the master photo-finish (which should have multiple angles). The decision will be made today.

Official men’s 100m results: #Accra2026 1. Eseme 10.25s 2. Nkoana 10:31 3. Chidera 10:31 4. Joe Paul 10: 32 5. Makarawu 10: 32 6. Saminu 10:32 7. Kone 10:37 8. Simao 10:55

9.98s to 10.2s is mind blowing. Can you remove this timer from the track please?😊Thank you

He's gone. Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, the President of Confederation of African Athletics since 2003 has passed away, today, and probably at the worst possible time. The 24th Senior Africa Athletics Championship that began on the 12th to the 17th of May 2026 in Ghana, is probably the last nail on his disastrous leadership at the Dakar-based organization. The championships got off to a chaotic start in Accra, with athletes and journalists raising concerns over poor accommodation, food shortages, and inadequate working conditions despite the event attracting some of the continent’s top track and field stars. It mirrors his chaotic and dictatorial leadership at Confederation of African Athletics, which has lagged behind in the last decade. The Cameroonian military man never cared about the sport in Africa or the welfare of the athletes. He was mostly concerned with the optics of power and the trappings of it, which ensured he enjoyed some status and privilege in his home country. Since he took over from Lamine Diack in 2003, be he blocked reforms at CAA and refused to adapt to the changing realities of the time. Sponsors fled and the federation bled, now even unable to host an African Championship worthy of its name. The 2024 African Athletics Championships in Cameroon was probably an audit of his incompetence in his own home country, following a scandalous edition in Assaba, Nigeria in 2018. Long rejected by Olympians at Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Hamad Kalkaba Malboum was left isolated and lonely in his sunset years as he battled illness in Cameroon. African Athletics will not miss Hamad Kalkaba Malboum. Natural selection process has liberated the Confederation of African Athletics from the yolk of self-strangulation and stagnation. The Confederation of African Athletics Elective Congress must nurse the association to the next polls in 2027, with a view to identifying the best leadership for the troubled outfit. CAA Senior Vice President and Athletics Kenya Chief Jackson Tuwei, currently in Ghana, must be confirmed as the new head until the next polls are called. A new dawn for African Athletics should start immediately as there is no time to waste. The starter's gun is misfiring and athletes poles are breaking mid-air at the current African Senior Athletics Championships in Ghana, anyway. Commiseration to his family.

A rather unfortunate development! Kalkaba Malboum has passed away while his federation’s flagship competitor is underway.

Goodness me🤦🏿‍♂️Ghana Where on earth did authorities get their equipment from? 2nd Athlete to have his pole vault snapped… Disgrace is understatement…we are just not fit to host any competition…

CAA President Hamad Kalkaba Malboum passed away earlier today at age 75.

Reason I stopped my real-time updates… The timing system wasn’t available during the morning session. It was only brought in after the afternoon session had already started. The screen appeared damaged, with only half of it working, so they eventually had to out it off.

You agree to host Africa in Accra in a competition. The entire budget is around 40 million Ghana cedis. Championship starts, and budget has still not been released for the federation and its LOC. This is the crust and heart of the whole matter. Sad Because it's not Black Stars!