UOC throws out team disciplines
May 24, 2005
UGANDA Olympic Committee (UOC) has dropped team sports, leaving only nine of the earlier proposed 12 disciplines to represent the country in next year’s Commonwealth Games.
By Norman Katende
UGANDA Olympic Committee (UOC) has dropped team sports, leaving only nine of the earlier proposed 12 disciplines to represent the country in next year’s Commonwealth Games.
UOC president Maj. Gen. Francis Nyangweso said that they found it befitting to basketball, rugby and netball as the first tentative entry by numbers was sent to the games organising committee yesterday.
“Getting sponsorship for team events is very difficult. We have now remained with only individual events and we have tentatively entered their disciplines by numbers,†said Nyangweso.
A total of 85 athletes, 31 of them female have been entered from the nine disciplines.
“This is just entry by numbers. For the athletes to qualify on the team, they have to have a placing which is equal or better than the eighth position of the last Commonwealth Games in Manchester (2002),†clarified Nyangweso.
He said that that an organising committee, which will be made up of members from all the associations set to travel for the games has, as the first assignment, to draw up a budget and a programme, which will not only end at the commonwealth but stretch to the Olympic Games of 2008 in Beijing and 2012.
“That is what the Olympic solidarity wants and we are trying to see that we achieve it.â€
The nine remaining disciplines are swimming (10), athletics (15), badminton (14), boxing (11), cycling (7), shooting (5), table tennis (8), weightlifting (12) and power lifting (3).
Meanwhile, Justine Bayiga will resume her bid to qualify for the Commonwealth Games when she takes part in the Sudan edition of the Pan African meet due Saturday in Khartoum.
The Kampala International University student will be fighting to run under 24.44s to be included on the team. She flies out today courtesy of the Sudan Athletics Federation.
“It was the only ticket we could raise with the help of the hosting federation,†said local federation publicity secretary Namayo Mawerere.
UGANDA Olympic Committee (UOC) has dropped team sports, leaving only nine of the earlier proposed 12 disciplines to represent the country in next year’s Commonwealth Games.
UOC president Maj. Gen. Francis Nyangweso said that they found it befitting to basketball, rugby and netball as the first tentative entry by numbers was sent to the games organising committee yesterday.
“Getting sponsorship for team events is very difficult. We have now remained with only individual events and we have tentatively entered their disciplines by numbers,†said Nyangweso.
A total of 85 athletes, 31 of them female have been entered from the nine disciplines.
“This is just entry by numbers. For the athletes to qualify on the team, they have to have a placing which is equal or better than the eighth position of the last Commonwealth Games in Manchester (2002),†clarified Nyangweso.
He said that that an organising committee, which will be made up of members from all the associations set to travel for the games has, as the first assignment, to draw up a budget and a programme, which will not only end at the commonwealth but stretch to the Olympic Games of 2008 in Beijing and 2012.
“That is what the Olympic solidarity wants and we are trying to see that we achieve it.â€
The nine remaining disciplines are swimming (10), athletics (15), badminton (14), boxing (11), cycling (7), shooting (5), table tennis (8), weightlifting (12) and power lifting (3).
Meanwhile, Justine Bayiga will resume her bid to qualify for the Commonwealth Games when she takes part in the Sudan edition of the Pan African meet due Saturday in Khartoum.
The Kampala International University student will be fighting to run under 24.44s to be included on the team. She flies out today courtesy of the Sudan Athletics Federation.
“It was the only ticket we could raise with the help of the hosting federation,†said local federation publicity secretary Namayo Mawerere.