The Osaka District Court ruled in favor of Izumisano city against the central government over the city’s funding being clawed back because of the high amount it raised through the hometown tax donation program.
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Members of the Ugandan Olympic team leave a hotel in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, on Tuesday to head for Tokyo for the Olympic Games. | KYODO
Kyodo Jul 22, 2021
An athlete from Uganda who went missing last week from his pre-Olympic training camp in Osaka Prefecture has been found and headed back to his home country late Wednesday, officials said.
The mayor of Izumisano, which hosted the training camp, said at a press conference that Julius Ssekitoleko initially expressed hopes of staying in Japan but was later convinced to go back to Uganda during a meeting with the head of the Ugandan team.
Uganda’s Olympic team members arrive at their hotel in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, on June 20. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Local officials are searching for a Ugandan athlete who went missing in western Japan on Friday in a case raising questions over Japanese organizers oversight of Olympic participants amid local coronavirus concerns.
The missing 20-year-old Julius Ssekitoleko was training as part of the nine-member Ugandan team in Izumisano, Osaka prefecture, city officials said.
Teammates realized the athlete was absent around noon Friday when his saliva test sample was not delivered and they found his hotel room empty, city officials said. There was no training Friday morning and he was last seen in his room in the early hours of Friday.
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