While the above is not the best of news , there is still much excitement around the months of June , July and August , when the African Championships , World Athletics Championships , Commonwealth Games as well as the World Under-20 Championships will all be held . This does create a headache , of sorts , for the ASA selectors , as already covered in the previous edition of Modern Athlete ( read it here ), but for those of us who have been starved of action for the past 20-plus months , this busy period is something to look forward to !
The Africa Championships are in Mauritius from 8 to 12 June , then we move to the World Athletics
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Championships , which will be held in the new Hayward Field Stadium in Eugene , Oregon in the USA from 15 to 24 July . The Commonwealth Games athletics schedule in Birmingham , UK runs from 2 to 8 August , with the World Under-20 |
Championships in Cali , Columbia from 1 to 6 August . And in between all of this will be the exciting World Athletics Diamond Leagues Series , running from May to September , at venues all over the world . |
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