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Down Memory Lane: When Michael Ezra’s Track Board took Uganda’s athletics crisis to IAAF
AAF officials, Kasajja noted, were stunned that by mid-August 2003, Uganda had still not finalised entries for the Paris World Championships (August 23–31, 2003), a deadline that had already passed the previous month.
Isaac Kachembe (R) takes an early lead in the mens 4km race during the final round of the Ezra Cross-Country Championship series at Garuga, Feb 14 2004. Francis Musani won it. File photo
By: Vision Reporter, Journalists @New Vision
In the heat of Uganda’s athletics crisis two decades ago, the Ezra Track Team Board (ETTB) escalated matters to the very top, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
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