Continuadores back to athletics only, thanks to president’s direct intervention

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Continuadores back to athletics only, thanks to president’s direct intervention

12:47 CAT | 07 Jul 2016

The new athletics track in Maputo's Parque dos Continuadores. [Photo: O País]

Mozambique’s athletics fraternity had reason to smile when the refurbished athletics track at the Parque dos Continuadores stadium in Maputo was reopened yesterday.

President Filipe Nyusi demanded that the facility be rehabilitated after a visit in September last year.

At the reopening ceremony, Minister of Youth and Sport Alberto Nkutumula said that anybody who made improper use of the track, even pedestrians crossing it as a short cut, would be liable to prosecution, and promised that, unlike in the past, the rehabilitated track would not be used for anything but sport.

Image result for nyusi parque continuadores 2015 — *President Nyusi in August last year during a surprise visit to the track where the head of state cleared instructed that the ‘Continuadores’ was to be used for sports only . [File photo: Desafio]*

President of the Mozambican Athletics Federation Shafee Sidat said the reopening of the track was of historical significance, since it was there that Mozambique’s 800-meter Olympic champion, Lurdes Mutola, came to prominence.