Athletics SA boss James Moloi vows to help disgraced Luvo Manyonga

Manyonga, after failing to take a mandatory drug test in 2019, and two more in 2020, was slapped with a four-year ban by World Athletics, which is set to end in December 2024.

Despite this, Moloi told SABC Sport that ASA is committed to helping the 2016 Olympic silver medallist revive his career and rebuild his life.

"It was very disturbing because I even sent some of the board members to go and look for him and check what he's doing – I think, maybe, last month," said Moloi.

"They did go and check for Luvo, but from our side we are not going to leave Luvo behind, we are going to pursue and make it a point that Luvo must come back.

"After the ban comes to an end, we will, as Athletics South Africa, try by all means just to get somebody – one of the universities or anybody – to come and place him there, and get someone who is going to monitor him so that he can come back.

"So we have spoken to the parents, and especially the sister, about the matter, and the sister said, 'If we can get a very strict somebody to help us get him somewhere and monitor him.'

"And then he might come back, it's not the end of the world [if he doesn't]. Even if your child does something wrong, as a parent, you must go and pursue and make it a point that we change that child."

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