12 March 2008
Posted to the web 12 March 2008

Bonnie Mugabe in Ruhengeri
Kigali

The national team athletics bound for the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championship set for March 30 in Edinburgh, Scotland have complianed of dire living conditions in their residential camp in Ruhengeri, Northern Province.

The disturbing situation was revealed by team captain Gervais Hakizimana in an interview with Times Sport at the team's training camp over the weekend.

According to him, such sub-standard training conditions can not guarantee neither him nor his teammates any chance to not only win something or even perform well against the world's best athletes in Edinburg.

'We're living poorly, the conditions we're training in are not anywhere near what is required to prepare someone going for a world championship.

'To start with, we're staying at a very congested domitory at Ruhengeri's cathedral centre with poor sanitation and we find it being hazardous to our health,' Hakizimana complained.