Olympics

It has been 17 years down the road since Uganda registered a boxing win at the Olympic Games. The last boxer to do this is Sam ‘Rocky’ Rukundo who won two fights at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. He fought in the lightweight category before falling to Russia’s Murat Petrovich Khrachev. Catherine Nanziri made history as she became ...

Just like at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Uganda’s opening ceremony uniform at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics did not go unnoticed. The Olympics team named Uganda among the top 10 nations with outstanding outfits at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. Uganda’s Beauty Pageant specialist and Miss International Uganda, Monica Akech, could not hide her excitement. ‘’I loved the Ugandan ...

The only Ugandan Rowing athlete at the Japan Olympics, Grace Kathleen Nobel finished 5th in Heat 2 of Women’s Single Sculls. This happened during the opening round of the event at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo, Japan on Friday. Kathleen posted a time of 8:25:85, beating Singapore’s Joan Poh who finished last. Kathleen, who is Uganda’s first-ever rower at ...

The Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony is set to be held in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium this week on Friday. However, Olympics organizing committee fired the director of the show on the eve of the event over a decades-old skit referencing the Holocaust. Kentaro Kobayashi’s comments in a video of a comedy sketch from 1998 emerged online very abruptly. This sparked ...

Ugandan female athletes Winnie Nanyondo and Halima Nakaayi are set to test themselves in Monaco in preparation for Tokyo Olympics. The duo has already qualified to represent the country at the Tokyo Olympics. However, they will be running the women’s 1500, and 800m respectively against elite fields at the Stade Louis II. Nanyondo heads into the 1500m race after claiming ...