Africa's top badminton player ready for Beijing Olympics
                   
xinhuanet.com     Jul 27, 2008            

By Andrew Jackson Oryada KAMPALA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Africa's top seed and the first ever Ugandan badminton player at the Olympics Edwin Ekiring has said he is more than ready to compete with other top players in Beijing next month. Ekiring said although he enters the Beijing Games on a wildcard, he is more than ready to challenge top players from Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the host of China. Ekiring, who became Africa's top seed last month ahead of Algeria's Nabil Lasmari, told Xinhua in a telephone interview on Friday night from the Netherlands where he was playing in a mini-club tournament that he is more than rearing to go. "Olympics are very big and I have to go in a big way," said the 24-year old Ekiring. The International Badminton Federation, on the request of the Olympic Solidarity, gave Ekiring and Zambian... [read full story]                    


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