Team Uganda must set its eyes on doubling size at next Games

The Olympics is for all intents and purposes a numbers game. Bigger is always better.

The more, the merrier. And while numbers offer no assurance that a competing nation will come through the Summer Games unscathed and, with any luck, its reputation enhanced, chasing the small comforts they offer does no appalling harm. It certainly does the ego great good. 

The biggest contingent Uganda has sent to the Summer Games was at Munich 1972. Fondly remembered for the manner in which John Akii-Bua comfortably outperformed his chief rivals in the 400m finals, many know remarkably little…