allAfrica.com: Uganda: Beijing Olympics Will Form Bedrock of Promising Year (Page 1 of 1): "FEWER competitions rev the juices of the international sportsperson more furiously than the Olympic Games, and the world's biggest games come again this year in August in the Chinese city of Beijing.
And Uganda - for whom success in the Olympic Games has long been the hallmark of sporting success - will not leave anything to chance.
According to the secretary of the Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) Beatrice Ayikoru, the federation will hold a meeting with the nation's athletes and emphasize the importance of participating at the Olympic Games.
'We are going to advise them to specialise in only one event as qualification is fairly difficult,' Ayikoru said of the federation's plans for the Olympics.
UAF's focus is crucial for athletics will represent Uganda's most realistic hope of securing an Olympic medal following the utter implosion of amateur boxing.
Boxing implodes
Over the years, athletics and boxing have yielded the highest number of Olympic medals -- of the five medals Uganda has won in Olympic history, athletics has claimed two and boxing three - but the latter's chances in Beijing have been significantly diminished by the pugilists failure to qualify.
The nation's amateur boxers instead elected to blow a wonderful opportunity by going AWOL at the World Boxing Championships in Chicago last year, an Olympic"
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