Start 'em running from young

French marathon runner and coach Jean-Pierre Lautredoux feels that it is best to start training children from small to run so that some of them may one day become elite runners.

MALAYSIAN sports has a lot on its plate. Apart from delivering results, the main challenges for us as a young sporting nation is having to combat drying talent pools, inaction over grassroots development and athletes unable to make a fluid progression from junior to elite to champion.

It's something that has seen more column inches in our local newspapers of late.