{"id":75668,"date":"2019-03-16T02:12:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T00:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=75668"},"modified":"2019-03-16T02:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T00:12:44","slug":"aam-cautions-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/16\/aam-cautions-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"AAM cautions athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Mphatso Malidadi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75672\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kefasi-kasiteni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kefasi-kasiteni-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kefasi-kasiteni-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kefasi-kasiteni-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kefasi-kasiteni.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CAMPING<br \/>WITH FELLOW<br \/>RUNNERS IN LILONGWE\u2014<br \/>Kasiteni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) has warned athletes who are currently camping for various international competitions to improve their finishing times or risk being dropped.<\/p>\n<p>About 22 athletes started camping in Lilongwe on Sunday ahead of the competitions including the World Cross Country Championships set for Denmark on March 30.<\/p>\n<p>AAM General Secretary, Frank Chitembeya, said the essence of the camp training session is to help athletes improve their performance.<\/p>\n<p>Chitembeya said the association wants its athletes to be qualifying for Olympic and Commonwealth games rather than participating on solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why we will be dropping athletes who will fail to improve. We want our athletes to aim at breaking national records and also qualify for major world events,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chitembeya said they used part of the support they got from International Association of Athletics Federations to kick-start the camping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are calling on well-wishers to come forward and assist us so that the athletes should not break the camp,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the athletes, Kefasi Kasiteni, said with good conditions, it was possible to break records and qualify for major international races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need is support. Malawi has good athletes and we can do well if we are supported in various areas of need,\u201d Kasiteni said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) has warned athletes who are currently camping for various international competitions to improve their finishing times or risk being dropped. About 22 athletes started camping in Lilongwe on Sunday ahead of the competitions including the World Cross Country Championships set for Denmark on March 30. AAM General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75674,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75668\/revisions\/75674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}