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Paris Olympics team Uganda has officially announced that the two medal prospects Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo won’t participate in tomorrow’s much anticipated men’s 5,000 meters race after they have failed to recover from exhaustion of running in the 10,000 meters race last Friday .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paris Olympics team Uganda has officially announced that the two medal prospects Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo won’t participate in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chep.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3766,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/ugandans-kiplimo-and-cheptegei-win-silver-and-bronze-medals-at-tokyo-2020-olympics\/","url_meta":{"origin":12575,"position":0},"title":"Ugandans Kiplimo and Cheptegei win Silver and Bronze medals at Tokyo 2020 Olympics","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"August 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Sports"","block_context":{"text":"Sports","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/sports-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kiplimo-Cheptegei-1.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kiplimo-Cheptegei-1.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kiplimo-Cheptegei-1.jpg 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12350,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/uganda-team-for-the-2024-paris-olympics-named\/","url_meta":{"origin":12575,"position":1},"title":"Uganda Team For The 2024 Paris Olympics Named","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"July 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Uganda Athletics Federation has named the Uganda team that will participate in the highly anticipated 2024 Paris Olympics that will begin on July 26.. 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