Ugandan weightlifter reported missing in Osaka before Tokyo Olympics

Authorities in Osaka have alerted that Ugandan weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko has gone missing from his hotel. He was scheduled to fly home on July 20 after missing a qualification spot on the Ugandan Olympic team.

A Ugandan Olympics athlete in Japan has gone missing, and the team’s host city is conducting a search with police, Japan’s top government spokesman said on Friday. NHK say it’s a weightlifter, and that an official at the host city noticed he was missing during a PCR test.

The athlete who is missing was due to return to Uganda with other staff on the 20th without participating in the Olympics, NHK reports. A city official says the head of the team has all of the athletes’ passports and the weightlifter also didn’t have time to exchange cash