Uganda Athletics Federation has signed a three year agreement with the Tuscany Camp, this morning at the Uganda Olympic Committee, that will see the country’s long and middle distance athletes preparing for international competitions all over the globe at the camp.
The agreement was signed by the federation’s president Dominic Otucet and the camp’s head coach Giuseppe Giambrone in a brief ceremony that was attended by national 10,000 meters record holder Boniface Toroitich Kiprop and journalists at Lugogo.
“We are glad to sign an agreement with Tuscany camp based in San Rocco a Pilli (Siena, Italy) as a federation centre for the care and preparation of these athletes likely to take part into Olympic games and IAAF competitions,” Otucet said. “Tuscany camp is committed itself to providing full, free of charge physiotherapical and medical assistance to all UAF athletes listed as likely to take part in the Olympic games and other IAAF events.”
The agreement will see UAF sending 15 athletes to the camp that will undergo precautionary examinations aimed at assessing their health or for anti-doping test in view of the Olympic games or World Championships of all IAAF competitions and will be fully catered by the camp.
The centre will also train athletes and pitch them towards IAAF events including the Olympic Games on top of sponsoring a medical doctor to travel to Uganda before every athletics season and test the athletes.
One of the beneficiaries of the camp is the national 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meters record holder Boniface Toroitich Kiprop, who has been out of the sport for four year’s and has fully recovered from a career ending muscle injury that he has been treating in Tuscany.