SONIA O’SULLIVAN will receive Australian nationality at a ceremony in Melbourne today and she confirmed she now wants to compete for her new country at the Commonwealth Games in March.

GARY OWENS, who masterminded the Strategic Plan for athletics, has agreed to act as the independent chairman of the new AAI Board for the next two years, to oversee the implementation of the integration process.

Brendan Mooney

OVER half the county boards affiliated to the Athletics Association of Ireland have demanded a Special Congress to discuss the problems within that organisation.