The Federation Cup is used as a selection trial for the mega event and athletes have to compete there for them to be eligible for selection.

These athletes were not allowed to compete in domestic competitions that were considered as trials to qualify for the games.

As she was doing well the Selection Committee also provided her a chance To prove her performance on March 12.

The calendar has been prepared keeping in mind the various international senior and junior athletics championships mainly Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, Asian junior and World junior events to be held in 2006.

When I look at all these professional athletes when they are 50 or 45 years old, they have knees that don't work at all, shoulders that don't work, back problems, and I think that that's a much more common occurrence than a guy who is 40 or 50 who has serious problems because of some steroid he was taking when he was 20.

Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the games look like a GOP convention.