How Times Change
IT is a sign of the times that Uganda is now looking at games like baseball to save its sporting image.
By Louis Jadwong
in Abuja
Softball
Uganda 3rd
Bronze pending confirmation
Baseball
Uganda 4th
Weightlifting
Men’s 56kg
Moses Kimbowa 7th
Ismail Katamba 8th
IT is a sign of the times that Uganda is now looking at games like baseball to save its sporting image.
One silver from 5000m runner Dorcus Inzikuru and two bronze medals from the ring won by Sadat Tebazalwa and Jolly Katongole, leave Uganda once again languishing in the lower half of the table.
Fortunes have changed much since the games in the same country in 1973, when Uganda led by the likes of Ayub Kalule and John Akii-Bua terrorised the continent.
Lagos '73 produced Uganda’s best placing at the Pan African games, with the team travelling back to Kampala in fourth position overall with eight gold, six silver and six bronze.
Pending official confirmation, baseball could raise Uganda's tally, enabling them to beat their worst performance, that came in Harare ‘95 (2 bronze)and get close to matching Brazzaville 1965 (one silver, four bronze).
Uganda’s girls finished in third position in the controversial softball event that ended on Tuesday.
Softball was marred by the delayed arrival of Ivory Coast while a team allegedly from Ghana has left the event facing the risk of being removed on the list of medal sports.
The rules of the Supreme Council of Sports SCSA indicate that for an event to be a medal counting sport, at least five countries must be in attendance.
Softball had South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Ivory Coast and a team from Ghana that did not appear after losing their first two games. Cameroon did not appear.
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in Abuja
Softball
Uganda 3rd
Bronze pending confirmation
Baseball
Uganda 4th
Weightlifting
Men’s 56kg
Moses Kimbowa 7th
Ismail Katamba 8th
IT is a sign of the times that Uganda is now looking at games like baseball to save its sporting image.
One silver from 5000m runner Dorcus Inzikuru and two bronze medals from the ring won by Sadat Tebazalwa and Jolly Katongole, leave Uganda once again languishing in the lower half of the table.
Fortunes have changed much since the games in the same country in 1973, when Uganda led by the likes of Ayub Kalule and John Akii-Bua terrorised the continent.
Lagos '73 produced Uganda’s best placing at the Pan African games, with the team travelling back to Kampala in fourth position overall with eight gold, six silver and six bronze.
Pending official confirmation, baseball could raise Uganda's tally, enabling them to beat their worst performance, that came in Harare ‘95 (2 bronze)and get close to matching Brazzaville 1965 (one silver, four bronze).
Uganda’s girls finished in third position in the controversial softball event that ended on Tuesday.
Softball was marred by the delayed arrival of Ivory Coast while a team allegedly from Ghana has left the event facing the risk of being removed on the list of medal sports.
The rules of the Supreme Council of Sports SCSA indicate that for an event to be a medal counting sport, at least five countries must be in attendance.
Softball had South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Ivory Coast and a team from Ghana that did not appear after losing their first two games. Cameroon did not appear.
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