It needs a lot of investment for us to get a return of investment. “For us to achieve or to come with the medals, the much-needed medals for the country, I appeal to the corporate world to support our athletes because without them definitely we won’t be there because it needs a lot of money. Meanwhile, Olympian Abel Chimukoko appealed to the corporate world to support athletes in their pursuit for qualification and preparation for the Olympic Games. “So on the recommendation of the national federation that is from the Zimbabwe Aquatic Union, there was a recommendation to make a replacement and this is how we came up to make a replacement,” Gonye said. “So there were some challenges that Denilson was going through… Remember all these athletes that we bring in on board for the scholarships we would be in liaison with the mother federation. Matiyenga replaced swimmer Denilson Cyprianos. The 10 beneficiaries of the IOC Olympic Solidarity scholarships are Andie Kuipers (triathlon), Donata Katai (swimming), Isaac Mpofu (athletics), Justine Carla Hobbs (rowing), Fortunate Chidzivo (athletics), Chengetayi Mapaya (athletics), Stephen Cox (rowing), Christi-Rose Pretorius (judo), Nomvula Mjimba (swimming) and Tinotenda Matiyenga (athletics). We will certainly be supporting to make them qualify,” said Gonye. We are looking at all those athletes that need to go into a competition. “So certainly I think we are not keeping our eyes just on the 10. But those that are not on scholarships, we are going to be very deliberate where we feel if they need a competition to put under the belt, we have means that we will be supporting them to participate in competitions that they need to qualify. “So there are a lot of things that we are looking at even the athletes that we are talking of. If the sprinters start coming in and show that they can qualify and have a few qualifiers, it might be one team event that we can also look at, to try and support the relay team. “We were also discussing with the chair of the technical development commission that we start thinking of other projects like the relay projects.
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“We are hoping that in the marathon we will not just have one but we would have at least a full quota of marathoners. So we have a few athletes, not just only those on scholarships, we have a team that we are working with, (with) NAAZ that we are supporting, so that they start preparing and going into the marathon competitions.
“We are supporting the marathoners, currently they are in camp, a camp which we are supporting. So far marathon runner Isaac Mpofu has qualified for the Paris Games.
The countdown to Paris 2024 Olympic Games is underway and athletes from different sport codes are pushing for qualification. Zimbabwe had five athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
ZOC have 10 athletes drawn from athletics, judo, rowing, swimming and triathlon on Olympic scholarships.īesides those 10, they are looking at other hopefuls as they target an improved number of athletes to represent the country next year. THE president of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee Thabani Gonye says they will be deliberate in supporting athletes they believe have a chance of making the qualifying standards for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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