TOKYO — A Ugandan weight lifter who traveled to Japan in the hopes of competing in the Tokyo Olympics has gone missing from his hotel near an athletic training camp, officials said on Friday.
Julius Ssekitoleko, 20, one of nine Ugandans who had been staying in Izumisano — a city in Osaka Prefecture in western Japan — since mid-June was discovered to be missing around noon Friday when he failed to show up for a coronavirus test.
Olympic organizers have tried to keep all participants in the Games in a “bubble” and in compliance with strict rules to prevent the spread of the coronavirus while they are in the country.