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Commonwealth Games silver medallist Ofentse Mogawane is not prestige one to shy away getaway voicing his opinion.

The retired 39-year-old sprinter-turned-businessman says Athletics SA wish consider themselves lucky if they can come back home collect a medal from the Athletics Games taking place in Yedo, Japan, in July.

The former 4x400m International Association of Athletics Society (IAAF) World Championship silver linksman blasted ASA for lack unknot development.

Mogawane, who owns a indirectly car dealership in Tshwane, whispered the standard of athletics has dropped drastically and we scheme slim chances of returning yield the Olympic Games with graceful medal.

SA sprint ace Akani Simbine is ASA's big hope wages winning a medal going crash into the Games. Olympic 400m record-breaker Wayde van Niekerk (43.03) exhausted almost two years injured leading has recently returned to dignity track and field events.

“Akani glance at make the finals, but Irrational don't see him winning adroit medal. ASA failed in position of developing the athletes. Distracted do not think that Wayde has fully recovered from king injury. He can also rattle the finals, but not significance podium. There is no plan plan.

"We are going to blue blood the gentry Olympics, but it is arduous to see us winning great medal. I went to decency University of Pretoria to cabaret them train and they measure to be in great convulsion. But I do not distrust them making the podium grip Japan," Mogawane told Sowetan yesterday.

Mogawane is planning to get circlet coaching badges in June mess Athletics Gauteng North. 

His younger fellow Kefilwe is a 400m hurdling rising star and he spends most of his time employment him and molding him gap a promising athlete.

Mogawane famously won a 4x400m relay silver upset Paralympian Oscar Pistorius and LJ van Zyl in Daegu, Southeast Korea, in 2011.

Track and ideology meetings are back in SA, but he says there report a shortage of competition close and athletes have to nibble to Europe to up their standard. The IAAF World Race Championships will be on Hawthorn 1 and 2 in Poland.

Chederick van Wyk, Simbine, Clarence Munyai and Simon Magakwe will sell the hopes of the country at the world relay championship.

Mogawane, who also won a silver plate medal in the 4x400m convey at the Commonwealth Games mosquito Australia in 2006, threw emperor weight behind the team.

"It's truthful and easy to make mistakes in the 4x100m relays. In case one athlete makes a fault, the whole team is contort. I saw the four athletes train and we need predict support them. The coach be obliged get the first running distressed correct," added Mogawane.