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March 12, 2020
Organizers of the 20th National Sports Festival “Edo 2020” have scheduled a track and field meet to test run the facilities at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium on Saturday.
The Technical Director of theAthletic Federation of Nigeria, Brown Ebewele, confirmed that some of the besthome-based athletes are going to feature in the Meet ahead of the inauguralceremony of the festival scheduled to begin on March 22.
Already, some selected athletes havebeen scheduled to run in the 100, 400, 800 metres and the relays (4×100 and the4×400 metres).
Ebewele who also doubles as theCoordinator of Team Edo, explained that field events like High Jump (women),Long Jump (men) and Shot Put are going to be competed for honours in the restrun meet.
Meanwhile, Technical officials andsome lawmakers from Abuja are in Benin to inspect the facilities provided byEdo State to host the 2020 Games. Governor, Godwin Obaseki of Edo State alsojoined the inspection team.