Mbulaeni Mulaudzi News

By Mogomotsi Magome South African athletes have embarked on a massive campaign to take their proper place in South African athletics following the recent chaos that has characterised Athletics South Africa .

African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema said the organisation will campaign for 800m runner Caster Semenya to run "as a girl". Malema was speaking at the ANCYL 65th anniversary gala dinner at the Johannesburg Country Club on Saturday night.

President Jacob Zuma called on South Africa to back Bafana Bafana for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

ANC statement of the Caster Semenya Support Task Team 16 October 2009 The ANC Caster Semenya Support Task Team has requested an urgent meeting with the International Association of Athletics Federation to express our outrage in the manner in which IAAF has handled the Caster Semenya matter and furthermore, to find an amicable solution to this ...

Athletics South Africa President Leoanard Chuene has called on the South African public to focus on the success of South African athletes rather than the controversial issues being dominated in the media.

Newly-crowned world 1500m champion Yusuf Saad Kamel of Bahrain moved closer to repeating his father Billy Konchellah's feat of winning the world 800m crown when he qualified for the final here on Friday.

Canadian Perdita Felicien was third in the women's 100-metre hurdles, while Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang returned from a foot injury to place second Sunday at the Golden Grand Prix.

American sprinters Tyson Gay and Carmelita Jeter flirted with history at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix on Sunday.

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang placed second at the Golden Grand Prix on Sunday in his first race since a foot injury forced him to pull out of the Beijing Olympics.

David Rudisha's near gun-to-tape victory was among the key highlights on the first day of the final edition of the World Athletics Final in this northern Mediterranean port city tonight.

Kamloops' Gary Reed won silver in the 800 metres race at an international track meet in Greece on Saturday.

This is the way to end a season. Gary Reed of Victoria overcame the bitter disappointment of failing to make the final of the 2009 world track and field championships last month in Berlin by taking the silver medal in the 800 metres yesterday at the World Athletics Final Meet in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Tyson Gay clocked 9.88 in his last major race of the season to beat Asafa Powell in the 100 metres while Canadian Gary Reed collected silver in the 800m Saturday at the World Athletics Final.

FLEET OF FOOT: Kenya's David Rudisha, right, wins the 800m at the Grand Prix athletics meeting in Rieti, Italy, on Sunday.

Asafa Powell ran the 100 meters in 9.99 seconds into a strong headwind on Sunday at the Rieti Grand Prix, on the same track where the Jamaican star set a then-world record of 9.74 two years ago.

WORLD SPRINT champion Caster Semenya was greeted with a heroine's welcome when she returned to South Africa last week.

The six meet F Golden League series comes to an end at the Memorial Van Damme here on Friday night, with Ethiopia's double world and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele a strong favorite to win at least a share of the $1 million Golden League Jackpot.

South Africa's three athletics medalists visited former president Nelson Mandela a day after their fanfare arrival in Johannesburg, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said today.

Politicians lining up to salute track star MOKGADI "Caster" Semenya will return to South Africa from Berlin, Germany, this morning to possibly the biggest welcome ever given a sporting star.

The Limpopo government and a property developer will give 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya and her family a house in recognition of her achievement, the province's housing department announced on Saturday.