{"id":461704,"date":"2011-07-15T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/15\/uganda-athletics-sets-qualifying-deadline\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:23:10","slug":"uganda-athletics-sets-qualifying-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/uganda-athletics-sets-qualifying-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Athletics Sets Qualifying Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"15.4900083264\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/newvision180.jpg\" alt=\"New Vision (Kampala)\" title=\"Visit New Vision (Kampala)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Norman Katende<\/p>\n<p>14 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The national athletics federation has locked out athletes who qualify late for international event, after setting the national championships due July 22-23 as the final qualifying date for the World Championships and All Africa Games.<\/p>\n<p>The move is aimed at ensuring that the federation gets ample time to train and monitor all the athletes that have qualified for international competition as a means of producing well prepared athletes to the events.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, injured or poorly trained athletes, some of them failing to compete in international events have benefitted from such trips, using funds that would have been diverted to improving the game.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taken from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107151047.html\" title=\"Uganda: Athletics Sets Qualifying Deadline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uganda: Athletics Sets Qualifying Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Norman Katende 14 July 2011 The national athletics federation has locked out athletes who qualify late for international event, after setting the national championships due July 22-23 as the final qualifying date for the World Championships and All Africa Games. The move is aimed at ensuring that the federation gets ample time to train and monitor all the athletes that have qualified for international competition as a means of producing well prepared athletes to the events. In the past, injured or poorly trained athletes, some of them failing to compete in international events have benefitted from such trips, using funds that would have been diverted to improving the game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uganda: Athletics Sets Qualifying Deadline - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/uganda-athletics-sets-qualifying-deadline\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Uganda: Athletics Sets Qualifying Deadline - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Norman Katende 14 July 2011 The national athletics federation has locked out athletes who qualify late for international event, after setting the national championships due July 22-23 as the final qualifying date for the World Championships and All Africa Games. 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