Dorcus, Uganda is ecstatic!
Aug 10, 2005
SIR — Dorcus Inzikuru has made history as the first Ugandan after Akii-Bua to win gold and has made all Ugandans proud. I watched her at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium with loud<br>cheers and tears of joy in my eyes.
SIR — Dorcus Inzikuru has made history as the first Ugandan after Akii-Bua to win gold and has made all Ugandans proud.
I watched her at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium with loud cheers and tears of joy in my eyes. She demolished and destroyed the rest of the competitors and made it one of the best races of the championship.
We have a ministry of education and sports, so Uganda should wake up and declare sports a fully-fledged industry with full and immediate funding!
Imagine a Ugandan earning $60,000 in five minutes! The talent is there, ask the Golden Girl!
Ali Jjunju
Helsinki, Finland
SIR — On Tuesday morning on my way to work, as I picked a copy of the new vision, there was a screaming headline “INZIKURUâ€.
Next to me was a lady about 45 years old who looked at the headline, and then screamed and thumbed the air with a winner’s smile on her face. The ‘little girl’ has made us proud again, this time at a bigger stage. That feeling the woman was going through, was the same feeling I too was experiencing.
I guess there must have been so many Ugandans feeling the same immediately they heard that Uganda had won a gold medal after over 20 years since Akii bua’s feat in Munich in 1972.
The genuine heros this country has are people like Inzikuru. Uganda needs to give them more than praise. Inzikuru has made Uganda proud. She deserves to be the ‘jewel of the pearl of Africa’ or ‘The fountain of honour’
Afayo Draman Victor
Makerere university
SIR — Reading about Dorcus Inzikuru’s remarkable feat of bagging gold in the women’s 3,000-metre steeplechase and winning Uganda’s second gold medal ever was truly heart warming.
I thank you Dorcus for the two wonderful pictures published in The new Vision. To the left, we see the passion of a champion a woman on top of the world, the world’s very best.
To the right, we see a young woman with an almost child-like innocent sweet-smile. A transformation that is remarkable and yet for some reason humbling.
I was reading the New Vision online at an airport. It was all I could do to refrain from running around showing this to all the strangers around and saying, “See, how about some news from Uganda?â€
It is not everyday that Ugandans have a reason to be proud. Thank you very much Dorcus, you have truly made my day.
Perry Muhebwe
Kampala
I watched her at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium with loud cheers and tears of joy in my eyes. She demolished and destroyed the rest of the competitors and made it one of the best races of the championship.
We have a ministry of education and sports, so Uganda should wake up and declare sports a fully-fledged industry with full and immediate funding!
Imagine a Ugandan earning $60,000 in five minutes! The talent is there, ask the Golden Girl!
Ali Jjunju
Helsinki, Finland
SIR — On Tuesday morning on my way to work, as I picked a copy of the new vision, there was a screaming headline “INZIKURUâ€.
Next to me was a lady about 45 years old who looked at the headline, and then screamed and thumbed the air with a winner’s smile on her face. The ‘little girl’ has made us proud again, this time at a bigger stage. That feeling the woman was going through, was the same feeling I too was experiencing.
I guess there must have been so many Ugandans feeling the same immediately they heard that Uganda had won a gold medal after over 20 years since Akii bua’s feat in Munich in 1972.
The genuine heros this country has are people like Inzikuru. Uganda needs to give them more than praise. Inzikuru has made Uganda proud. She deserves to be the ‘jewel of the pearl of Africa’ or ‘The fountain of honour’
Afayo Draman Victor
Makerere university
SIR — Reading about Dorcus Inzikuru’s remarkable feat of bagging gold in the women’s 3,000-metre steeplechase and winning Uganda’s second gold medal ever was truly heart warming.
I thank you Dorcus for the two wonderful pictures published in The new Vision. To the left, we see the passion of a champion a woman on top of the world, the world’s very best.
To the right, we see a young woman with an almost child-like innocent sweet-smile. A transformation that is remarkable and yet for some reason humbling.
I was reading the New Vision online at an airport. It was all I could do to refrain from running around showing this to all the strangers around and saying, “See, how about some news from Uganda?â€
It is not everyday that Ugandans have a reason to be proud. Thank you very much Dorcus, you have truly made my day.
Perry Muhebwe
Kampala