Tokyo 2020, Ugandan athlete who had disappeared in Japan returns home

The Ugandan athlete who disappeared from his pre-Olympic training ground in western Japan last week was found and returned to his home country on Wednesday evening, officials said. The mayor of Izumisano, who hosted the training camp, explained that Julius Ssekitoleko expressed hope to stay in Japan in the morning but was then persuaded to return to Uganda during a meeting with the head of the delegation. The man found in the central prefecture of Mie on Tuesday by the police was the 20-year-old weightlifter Ssekitoleko, as confirmed by the Ugandan embassy in Tokyo: “Any problem has to do with the alleged escape from what he had to do on his arrival. in Japan and the related disappearance from the training ground, it will be handled appropriately upon his return. “