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4 Linhas is a 10-minute, weekly sports feature with special guests covering african and world sports events.

Please scroll down to listen to and read a little about it.

3^rd April 2007

Naide Gomes, a top-class Heptathlete ♫

Naide Gomes is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in Sao Tome e Principe and also a top-class competitor in the long-jump.

Gomes started competing under the flag of her birth-country, Sao Tome and Principe and represented it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, though she has lived in Portugal since she was 11. She got the Portuguese citizenship in 2001, and she has since represented it on major international competitions.

She has recently won gold medals in the long jump at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, in which she raised the national record to 6.89m.

I interviewed Naide and her coach of many years, Abreu Matos for the weekly sports programme "4 Linhas".

23^rd April 2007

Football in Bissau ♫

Eusébio on the left and Coluna on the right Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (born in 1935), nick-named “the sacred monster” and considered to be one, if not the best, midfielder his country has ever had.

In 1990 he was voted 60^th in the European Player of the Century election held by the IFFHS. Coluna captained the legendary “Magricos” team (with Eusebio, one of the greatest players of all times) in the games of the World Cup of 1966, were Portugal reached third place.

I interviewed Coluna as he prepared to hand-over the presidency of the Mozambican Football Federation to his successor.

Mário Coluna coaching his Palancas Negras In the second half of this 4 Linhas, I talked to Ahmed Ould, the president of the Association of Guine-Bissau Coaches about the football played in Bissau and about the invitation addressed to Luis Oliveira Goncalves, the Angolan national coach, to visit Guine-Bissau and share his experience as a World Cup participating nation.

Luís de Oliveira Gonçalves coaching his 'Palancas Negras' during the 2006 World Cup in Germany

29^th May 2007

Lurdes Mutola, a Mozambican champion ♫

Lurdes Mutola is often ranked as the greatest 800 m runner of all time and her consistency, record and performance at the highest levels of sport for more than a decade are unmatched. Yet Mutola’s work reaches far beyond the sports arena. In 2003 she was appointed an honorary United Nations youth ambassador and through her own foundation she funds education and athletics for unprivileged children. Macame Brahame Macame, the executive director of Lurdes Mutola Fondation spoke to the BBC about the current projects under way at the foundation:

Find out more about the work of Mutola’s foundation here.

Mutola is the world record holder at 1000m indoor and African record holder at 800 and 1000m (outdoor) and won 4 African championships (1 in 1500m), 3 African games, overall GP 1995, CG 1998, and GWG 1994.

Check Lurdes Mutola’s records and find out more about her on Wikipedia.

13^th August 2007

An unusual champion ♫