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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 Uganda National football team, the Uganda Cranes will if all goes according to plan hire Chris Mcginn to fill up the void of the national team manager. McGinn has worked with some of the top premier league clubs like Arsenal. He was both a Youth and Strikers coach for a period that spanned 10 years. He has also been ...

Onduparaka FC defender Hakim Magombe ‘Makupesa’ is filled with regret for his miscalculated move to Onduparaka FC. On Tuesday, the Arua-based team released 14 players at once, and Hakim Magombe happened to be one of those releases. He has described the incident as ‘disgraceful.’ Magombe, after goalkeeper Austin Opoka joined the Caterpillars from Busoga United earlier this year. The defender, ...

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 ...

Joseph Ssemujju emerged BUL Football Club’s top scorer in the recently concluded 2020-2021 season. The forward-cum-winger managed to put 14 balls at the back of the net. These were both in the StarTimes UPL and in the Stanbic Uganda Cup. The 11 goals came in the league and 4 assists in the 13 matches played including a hat-trick against rivals ...