A total of 31 sportsmen and women attended the annual engagement workshop organised by the National Olympic Committee of Zambia Athletes' Commission in Lusaka.
Wide range of athletes attend Zambian NOC's engagement workshop insidethegames.biz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insidethegames.biz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
THE Philippine Olympians Association (POA) honored Bounty Agro Ventures Inc. (BAVI), the company behind Chooks-to-Go, with the Arête Award recently. BAVI earned the recognition for honoring the country’s past Olympians by providing them livelihood in the form of Chooks-to-Go stores. POA president Akiko Thompson-Guevara, secretary-general Gerardo Rosario and advisor to…
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Leslie Laing at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Photo Credit: S&G/PA Images via Getty Images Leslie “Les” Laing, a member of the 4×400 metre gold medal winning team from the 1952 Helsinki Olympics died on Feb 7. The Linstead, St Catherine, Jamaica native was days away from his 97th birthday. Sources differ on his age, but according to the Olympic.org website, he was born on Feb. 19, 1924. Details of Laing’s death were not released, but his advanced age is considered a factor. In the 1952 Olympics, Laing ran the second leg of the 4×400 metre relay team that won the race in a then world record time of three minutes, 03.9 seconds.