Modern Athlete Magazine Issue 56, March 2014 | Page 6

Editor’s Letter

Onwards and Upwards
T

he weekend before going to print on this edition
saw the long-awaited meeting of the warring Athletics
South Africa (ASA) factions with Mr Cheikh Thiaré,
Director of Executive Office of the IAAF President.
He came out to South Africa on behalf of the global
athletics controlling body to put an end to the infighting that has virtually crippled athletics in this
country, and the announcement followed that both
the original ASA Board and the Interim ASA Board
had agreed to step down in favour of a temporary
ad hoc committee of five to seven members that will
serve for three months to run the sport, and then
new elections for the ASA Board must be hel