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TEAM UGANDA’S KEEP AN EYE COMPETITION SCHEDULE z Today — Day four Evening session 11:50pm - Women’s PÀQDO Cheptegei is the next gem Tuesday, August 8 ³'D\ÀYH Evening session By James Bakama “He’s a smart guy, went to As the race approached the 8:30pm - Women’s university for two years and home stretch Farah as expect- PVWHHSOHFKDVHÀUVW After Joshua Cheptegei you can feel it with everything ed engaged a stronger gear. URXQG3HUXWK&KHPXWDL got silver on Friday night, he does,” says Van der ’s Paul Tanui and 11:10pm - Men’s 3,000m a journalist asked him Velden. “He picks things up Bedan Karoki also increased VWHHSOHFKDVHÀQDO whether he was primed really quick.” their pace with Chepetegei 11:35pm - Men’s 800m to take over from retiring One thing that underlines falling back. ÀQDO 5,000 and 10,000 legend the fact that Chepetegei is In such an intimidating sce- z Thursday, August 10 . destined for greatness is the nario many Ugandans would — Day seven The new 10,000m silver fact that he has also finally have given up. Cheptegei had Evening session medalist was quick in matured. done exactly that at the Rio 8:30pm - Women’s responding: “Yeah,” he said He has outgrown that excite- Olympics finishing eighth and PÀUVWURXQG with a smile adding- ment that comes with inexpe- sixth respectively in the 5000 3HUXWK&KHPXWDLDQG “Absolutely.” rience. It had him burning out and 10000m. 0HUF\OLQH&KHODQJDW So is Chepetegei really set to in March just when a World But on Friday night this was 9:25pm - Women’s 800m become the new king of the Cross Country gold seemed in a different Cheptegei. As the TXDOLI\LQJ+DOLPD1D two long distance events, or is to be in his grip. He eventual- race got into the final 100 NDD\L:LQQLH1DQ\RQGR he simply being too ambi- ly finished 30th. meters he also stepped on the DQG'RUFXV$MRN tious? “I have learnt to pace gas pedal. 10:25pm - Men’s 1500m Coach Rafael Kasaja, who myself,” he said before The Kenyans and Ethiopian TXDOLI\LQJ5RQDOG0XVD handled Cheptegei in the ini- Friday’s race. There were Jemal Yimar, who are used to JDOD tial years of his career, says however still fears on Friday frightening off Ugandan oppo- z Friday, August 11 that barring injury, the athlete that he was headed for a sition with late sprints, this — Day eight has got all it takes to domi- repeat of what has come to be time not only seemed sur- Evening session nate the two races for the known as the “Kololo disas- prised by Cheptegei’s late 9:35pm - Women’s next decade. ter”. surge, but also had no answer. PTXDOLI\LQJ+DOLPD “For starters he is young. Cheptegei shot into the lead No wonder Cheptegei easily 1DNDD\L Then he is very talented, dis- in the first lap running the cruised to silver. A finishing :LQQLH1DQ\RQGRDQG ciplined and also has the 400m in an amazing 61 sec- kick similar to Moses Kipsiro’s 'RUFXV$MRN mindset of a winner,” says onds. But he tactfully thereaf- would have easily had Farah 10:10pm - Men’s 1500m Kasaja, who followed ter fell back leaving the beaten. TXDOLI\LQJ Cheptegei’s impressive run on Kenyans and Ethiopian to do Farah, who was running his 11:25pm - Women’s TV in Kampala. most of the front running. last 10,000m, described the PVWHHSOHFKDVH Jurrie van der Velden, a That he eventually out ran pulsating final as the greatest ÀQDO manager with sports manage- the mighty Ethiopians and win of his life. z Sunday, August 13 ment company- Global Sports, Kenyans in one of the fastest Such an observation from a — Day 10 who manage Cheptegei, finals ever, was also a bold legend was certainly also an Evening session believes Cheptegei is destined statement of the good things endorsement for the man who 19:35pm - Women’s for even greater things. yet to come. came second. PÀQDO “I immediately knew I had a “That was a clear statement Farah was recognising the 10:10pm - Women’s special talent on my hands that he was not only faster, fact that the man who pushed PÀQDO %JGRVGIGKTGCEVUCHVGTJKUUKNXGTKPVJGOGPŏUOſPCNCV when I first saw him in 2014,” but also has fighting spirit,” him to the limit was indeed a 10:30pm - Men’s 1500m the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London on Saturday recounts Velden. notes Kasaja. force to reckon with. ÀQDO Cheptegei, and not Farah, deserved the 10,000m gold Continued from Page 76 Championship is to maintain At the Rio Olympics last After the race, a disappoint- its credibility as track and year another multiple World ed Mekhissi-Benabbad said field’s biggest event, isn’t it and Olympic medalist Ezekiel that Kemboi cut a turn short. Farah in an effort to keep time rules were impartially Kemboi was also stripped of An appeal jury “met and balance after what looked like applied? his medal for lane infringe- examined the video of the knocks from Kenyan Paul After all it wouldn’t be the ment. race, confirming that Kemboi, Tanui, staggered and twice first that a big name is dis- Hours after he claimed after clearing a water jump, stepped outside the track. qualified. The face of athletics bronze in the men’s 3,000- had stepped outside the track A Farah disqualification Usain Bolt was at the 2011 meter steeplechase, Kenya’s on the curved part before the would automatically make edition of the world meet dis- Ezekiel Kemboi was disquali- home straight.” Cheptegei champion.. So why qualified for false starting. fied after Mahiedine Mekhissi- “When one makes the road didn’t that happen? It was the first time that Benabbad of France filed a less, this is not the (3,000- Uganda seems not to have many came to terms with the formal complaint. meter steeplechase),” he said. appealed. Or if it did, then the fact that the towering Kemboi’s disqualification The rules are the rules, he hosts could have overruled Jamaican was human after all. moved Mekhissi-Benabbad added. them. Amid gasps of shock at the from fourth to bronze. Just recently Uganda’s Or was the IAAF card World Championships in Mekhissi-Benabbad’s filed a Emmanuel Goni (200m) and played? Remember that the , South Korea Usain post-race appeal claiming that Eric Layeng (400m) were dis- is headed by a Bolt was sensationally disqual- Kemboi committed a lane vio- qualified for lane infringe- Briton Sebastian Coe. ified from the 100 metres lation. It was upheld by the ment. Stripping the host’s biggest final. International Association of So if a star as big as Bolt athlete on what was undoubt- This was after he became Athletics Federation, the could be punished, why not Cheptegei celebrates edly his biggest night would the latest athlete that time to sport’s governing body, which Farah? Are hosts Graet Britain his silver medal, coming have been a huge blow. fall foul of the one-strike-and- cited Kemboi for an “infringe- and organisers IAAF really behind mo Farah who took But if the World Athletics you’re-out false start rule. ment of the inside border.” playing fair? the men’s 10,000m gold