Julius Ssekitoleko, left a note declaring that he does not want to return to his homeland, in Izumisano, Osaka (500 km from Tokyo), and was found in Yokkaichi, Mie, 170 km from his hotel where he recharged before the games, states AP .
According to the latest ranking, however, Ssekitoleko did not meet the requirement to participate in the Olympics and would return home this week.
Two positive covid-19 cases in the squad
The small Ugandan delegation of nine people has had a difficult charge in Japan.
A person in the Ugandan delegation tested positive for the more contagious delta variant of covid-19 on arrival in Tokyo on 19 June and was the first positive foreign case of infection in Japan.
Shortly afterwards, another person in the Ugandan squad tested positive and the whole squad had to self-isolate.
All members of the squad had received two doses of vaccine and tested negative before leaving for Tokyo.
That isolation ended on July 7 and today the Ugandan squad came to the Olympic village - uan Ssekitoleko.