Nakaayi endorses Namboole track works

As she visited Mandela Stadium Namboole last Friday, Olympian Halimah Nakaayi was literally licking her lips at the prospect of returning to train from home.

Since Namboole was closed for renovation in 2019, a year special to Nakaayi as she was crowned women’s 800m World Champion in Doha, she has had to tweak a lot about her training for the last two Olympics.

She speaks for many athletes and even the Uganda Athletics Federation, which had to switch base to Uganda Christian University (UCU) in Mukono to train athletes and hold competitions on a soil track. That leaves challenges…