{"id":76090,"date":"2019-03-27T03:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=76090"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:24:01","slug":"aam-panics-over-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/27\/aam-panics-over-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"AAM panics over tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidad:I <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) faces a race against time to raise K4 million for four athletes bound for World Cross-Country Championship in Aarhus, Denmark, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>AAM has earmarked Kefasi Kasiteni, Dorris Fisher (both 10km) , Jameson Tonde (8km) and Miriam Kachingwe (6km) for the 43rd edition of the championship.<\/p>\n<p>However, AAM General Secretary, Frank Chitembeya, admitted pressing the panic button as the association does not have the money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe have exhausted the funds we received from Iaaf [International Association of Athletics Federations]. We need about K4 million to send four athletes and a coach. But if we are to send the athletes on their own, we need K3 million flying Ethiopian Airways and K3.4 million if we are to fly South African Airways,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chi tembeya said Malawi\u2019s delegation was supposed to leave tomorrow for Denmark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cSo, we are still keeping our fingers crossed,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kasiteni said uncertainty surrounding the trip was not ideal for the athletes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe need to be sure whether we are going or not. Otherwise, we hope well-wishers will support the association,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidad:I Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) faces a race against time to raise K4 million for four athletes bound for World Cross-Country Championship in Aarhus, Denmark, on Saturday. AAM has earmarked Kefasi Kasiteni, Dorris Fisher (both 10km) , Jameson Tonde (8km) and Miriam Kachingwe (6km) for the 43rd edition of the championship. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76090","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=76090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76097,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76090\/revisions\/76097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}