THE Scottish Athletic Federation is urgently seeking a new venue for
the national track championships, scheduled for July 10. Glasgow
District Council, due to host the event at Crownpoint, have withdrawn
support, it was confirmed yesterday.
The organisers, who had already dismissed Edinburgh in the belief that
Glasgow would provide an #11,000 under-write (including #3000 in
prizes), have now approached the capital again. But Grangemouth, with
just six lanes, Ayr, and the new track at Linwood are all now in the
melting pot.
The SAF track commission are seeking an enforcement of a ban on league
and championship competition for under-11s as they are not covered by
insurance. An extension to cross-country competition seems inevitable.
* LIZ McColgan, though back in training, has withdrawn from a planned
World Cross race today in Italy after missing two days' training because
of a throat infection, but her World Cross Country Championship plans
are unchanged.
Pitreavie's Isabel Linaker, a reserve for Britain's junior world
cross-country squad, runs in the UK junior team in today's Italian
event, the Cinque Mulini, near Milan.
She will consequently not be available to her club at the national
women's cross-country relay championships at Irvine Moor tomorrow (1pm),
for which 91 teams have entered.
* APATHY by leading athletes -- only three applicants -- has forced
cancellation of a coaching seminar at which Sebastian Coe's father,
Peter, was due to be principal speaker this weekend in North Berwick.
But another course, involving Olympic coaches John Anderson and Mike
Smith, and sports physiotherapist Joan Watt, goes ahead at Fife
Institute today (9.30 for 10am).
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