Johannesburg – Athletics South Africa (ASA) will keep its headquarters in Houghton for now after the embattled federation came to an agreement with injured athlete Jan Blignaut’s legal representatives on Wednesday.
Athletics House was scheduled to go under the hammer in order to pay the damages it owed the pole-vaulter after he sustained head injuries in a fall at an ASA event in Pretoria in March 2009.
Last year September the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ordered ASA to pay Blignaut R10.4 million but the athletics body failed to make the payments which resulted in the scheduled sale of execution.