Dar es Salaam, Sept. 18 -- UNLIKE boxing which is now regaining life at both amateur and professional levels, the recently staged National Athletics Champions, athletics seem to be very close to the deathbed and something big must be done to revive it.

The Benjamin Mkapa stadium was disgustingly empty when the national level athletics meet took place last weekend, something which forces for a quick intervention to save the sport from total collapse.

We hoped the athletics to be fully revived now five years after Alphonce Simbu's 5th place in the Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro put the sport at the limelight, but the nationwide campaign has not almost ended fruitlessly.

In the beginning it looked as if Simbu would be alone in a campaign...