MOST sporting activities scheduled for last weekend had to be postponed on account of bad weather due to a tropical depression which brought with it heavy downpours and strong winds gusting up to 100km per hour at intervals.

The National Optimist Championship, scheduled for Saturday September 7,  starting at 9 a.m., was the first activity to be called off because of rough seas.

On the same day, the Seychelles Amateur Athletics Federation (SAAF) could not go on with the final round of the League competition expected to start at 9 a.m. at Stad Popiler.

The Group Six football match of the 2004 African Nations' Cup qualifiers between Seychelles and Eritrea was also called off. With the Stad Linite pitch being waterlogged and unplayable, Malagasy referee B. Ravelontsalama thought it best to postpone the game  to Sunday September 8.

On Sunday September 8, the Seychelles Karting Association (SKA) decided to put off its 11th round of the Formula A, Junior and Cadet championship.

Reached by telephone, Mr Dave Rene told Sports Nation that the SKA's 11th round  of the championship could not go on as planned because there was water on the Champions Park Raceway at Roche Caïman and they were heeding the advice of the authorities not to wander.