As the countdown to the 20th National Sports Festival in Benin City hits the homestretch, organizers of the Edo 2020 have scheduled a track and field meet to test run the facilities at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium this weekend.
Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Brown Ebewele confirmed that some of the best home-based athletes would feature in the meet ahead of the opening ceremony of the festival scheduled to begin on March 22.
Already, some selected athletes have been scheduled to run in the 100m, 400m, 800m and the relays (4x100m and the 4x400m).
Ebewele who also doubles as the Coordinator of Team Edo stretched that field events like High Jump (women), Long Jump (men) and Shot Put would be competed for honours in the test run meet.
“Already, we have entries from Delta, host Edo and few other states and the para-military sports teams like the NSCDC (Civil Defence) and the Police. These are two of the paramilitary institutions in the country with some of the best athletes in the country,” observed the former national decathlon star.
By Lekan Olaseinde,
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