By ELIAS MAKORIMore by this AuthorWorld Athletics (WA), the global athletics governing body, has sent some of its head office staff home as effects of the coronavirus pandemic continues to bite. However, the largely event management staff at WA will be cushioned by the Monegasque government’s generous scheme to support businesses based in the Principality of Monaco. “World Athletics is a member-based organisation with 214 federations around the globe and relies on grants and sponsorship funds to support athletics around the globe,” a statement copied to Nation Sport from WA’s communications office in Monaco on Tuesday said. It’s also uncertain how the Covid-19 pandemic stemming from China will affect this sponsorship or Wanda Group’s financing of WA. Hitherto, most of the WA staff, including the organisation’s president Seb Coe, have been working from home.

Source: Daily Nation April 08, 2020 02:26 UTC