Ddungu off to China
Jul 23, 2008
DELEGATION leader Roger Ddungu is due to depart today as part of an advance group for Team Uganda to the Beijing Olympic Games.
By Norman Katende
DELEGATION leader Roger Ddungu is due to depart today as part of an advance group for Team Uganda to the Beijing Olympic Games.
The Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation (UABF) president, will be in Beijing to check on the team’s accommodation and handle other formalities ahead of the athletes arrival for the quadrennial games in China.
The first batch is due to leave the country on Sunday and arrives in Beijing the following day.
“I going to confirm where the team will stay, in fact I will receive the team at the airport,†Ddungu explained in Kampala yesterday.
“NCS’s Justine Ligyalingi will attend the delegation leaders’ meeting on my behalf.â€
The meeting will involve debriefing of representatives of all the contingents set to travel to the Beijing Games.
The overall Team Uganda captain will also be named in Beijing in addition to announcing the date for the flag hoisting ceremony.
UOC president Maj. Gen. Francis Nyangweso confirmed that only 12 athletes will represent Uganda after the qualification period ended yesterday with no other making the grade.
The batch of athletes which departs this Sunday includes weightlifter Mubarak Kivumbi, boxer Ronald Serugo, swimmers Aya Nakitanda and Gilbert Kaburu and other team officials.
Badminton ace Edwin Ekiring will fly directly to Beijing from Germany where he has been attending an Olympic Solidarity training camp.
Athletics is the single largest discipline on the Team Uganda.
The group comprises Abraham Chepkirwok (800m), Alex Malinga (marathon), Moses Kipsiro and Geoffrey Kusuro (5000m), Boniface Kiprop (10000m), Benjamin Kiplagat (3000mSC) and Justine Bayigga (400m).
Wilson Busienei and Martin Toroitich had been tentatively put on the list but they failed to hit the qualifying mark.
The athletes are looking to emulate John Akii Bua, for his 400m hurdles gold at the 1972 Games. The gold is the only medal of its kind for Uganda at the Games.
DELEGATION leader Roger Ddungu is due to depart today as part of an advance group for Team Uganda to the Beijing Olympic Games.
The Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation (UABF) president, will be in Beijing to check on the team’s accommodation and handle other formalities ahead of the athletes arrival for the quadrennial games in China.
The first batch is due to leave the country on Sunday and arrives in Beijing the following day.
“I going to confirm where the team will stay, in fact I will receive the team at the airport,†Ddungu explained in Kampala yesterday.
“NCS’s Justine Ligyalingi will attend the delegation leaders’ meeting on my behalf.â€
The meeting will involve debriefing of representatives of all the contingents set to travel to the Beijing Games.
The overall Team Uganda captain will also be named in Beijing in addition to announcing the date for the flag hoisting ceremony.
UOC president Maj. Gen. Francis Nyangweso confirmed that only 12 athletes will represent Uganda after the qualification period ended yesterday with no other making the grade.
The batch of athletes which departs this Sunday includes weightlifter Mubarak Kivumbi, boxer Ronald Serugo, swimmers Aya Nakitanda and Gilbert Kaburu and other team officials.
Badminton ace Edwin Ekiring will fly directly to Beijing from Germany where he has been attending an Olympic Solidarity training camp.
Athletics is the single largest discipline on the Team Uganda.
The group comprises Abraham Chepkirwok (800m), Alex Malinga (marathon), Moses Kipsiro and Geoffrey Kusuro (5000m), Boniface Kiprop (10000m), Benjamin Kiplagat (3000mSC) and Justine Bayigga (400m).
Wilson Busienei and Martin Toroitich had been tentatively put on the list but they failed to hit the qualifying mark.
The athletes are looking to emulate John Akii Bua, for his 400m hurdles gold at the 1972 Games. The gold is the only medal of its kind for Uganda at the Games.