Real de Banjul FC Real de Banjul FC Real de Banjul FC is a Gambian football club based in Banjul. They play in the top division in Gambian football, the GFA League First Division. Real de Banjul was founded in the 1966–67 season after a group of secondary schoolboys international team returned from a trip to Thiès in Senegal and named it as BENSON AND HEDGES FC. The name was eventually changed by the then Director of Youth and Sports [then the Sports Officer] to REAL DE BATHURST FC and upon its registration with the Gambia Football Association, it headquartered at 81 Lancaster Street
African Cross Country Championships sport's top competitors come from Africa means that the top runners at the World Cross Country Championships, especially in the men's section, are largely the same ones which would form the field of an African Championships – at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships the top 25 finishers in the men's race, and the top 12 in the women's race, were all African-born. Commenting on the dominance of the competition, IAAF president Lamine Diack said that the competition had "become not only an African affair but an East African affair, and these days you don't even get athletes from