Reunion for Olympic Games aces Johnson and Kamoga
Oct 25, 2006
DAVIS Kamoga is set to renew his friendship off the track with Michael Johnson when the two meet in Kampala today. Johnson arrives in Kampala for charity work with Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.
By Norman Katende
DAVIS Kamoga is set to renew his friendship off the track with Michael Johnson when the two meet in Kampala today.
Johnson arrives in Kampala for charity work with Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.
He will visit the Community Based Project (COBAP) in Nakulabye that uses sports as a tool for social change and is facilitated by Laureus.
Kamoga lost to Johnson at both the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997.
Johnson won both events with Kamoga winning bronze at the Olympics and silver in 1997. Kamoga set the national record of 44.37 in the Athens’ meet.
Johnson, who won five Olympic gold medals and nine world championships, will address a press conference at 2pm, before he visits the project’s site at Nakulabye and later watch a village boxing exhibition.
Yesterday, hundreds of excited children gave an enthusiastic welcome to two of the greatest legends in sport, Marcel Desailly and Johnson, when they visited a Laureus Sport for Good supported project in Mathare, Kenya.
The Mathare Youth Sports Association, which uses football as the catalyst for social change, has been supported by Laureus since 2000. Based in one of the largest and poorest slums in Nairobi in which HIV/AIDS and other diseases are widespread, the project has pioneered the use of football as a tool to improve society.
DAVIS Kamoga is set to renew his friendship off the track with Michael Johnson when the two meet in Kampala today.
Johnson arrives in Kampala for charity work with Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.
He will visit the Community Based Project (COBAP) in Nakulabye that uses sports as a tool for social change and is facilitated by Laureus.
Kamoga lost to Johnson at both the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997.
Johnson won both events with Kamoga winning bronze at the Olympics and silver in 1997. Kamoga set the national record of 44.37 in the Athens’ meet.
Johnson, who won five Olympic gold medals and nine world championships, will address a press conference at 2pm, before he visits the project’s site at Nakulabye and later watch a village boxing exhibition.
Yesterday, hundreds of excited children gave an enthusiastic welcome to two of the greatest legends in sport, Marcel Desailly and Johnson, when they visited a Laureus Sport for Good supported project in Mathare, Kenya.
The Mathare Youth Sports Association, which uses football as the catalyst for social change, has been supported by Laureus since 2000. Based in one of the largest and poorest slums in Nairobi in which HIV/AIDS and other diseases are widespread, the project has pioneered the use of football as a tool to improve society.