Daily Monitor
Saturday July 10 2021
Hard work. Leni participated in several events to accummulate the points to make it to the Olympic Games. Photo/Ismail Kezaala
Summary
Sprint dream. Uganda’s only sprinter at the Tokyo Games made it after a dedicated track performance that garnered her enough points to get a ticket on ranking format having not qualified.
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The last time Uganda presented a sprinter at the Olympic Games, Shida Leni was just a 15-year-old girl in Ombachi juggling running, high jump and netball. When the 2016 Rio Games arrived, the quarter-miler missed narrowly blowing her Olympic dream away. She was sad!
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