The Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) on Friday announced three more codes that will participate at the Commonwealth Games in India from 3 to 14 October.

Cycling, boxing and shooting were added after the NNOC extended the deadline for the federations to submit the names of athletes who had met the qualification criteria from June 30 to 31 August.

The number of Namibian athletes that will participate at the Games now stands at 28 (9 females and 19 males) and 11 officials.

The All Namibia Netball Association (ANNA) announced a team of 12 players who will represent the country at the African Qualifiers due to be held in Pretoria, South Africa from 5-9 September.

The President of ANNA, Lydia Kandetu, said that Namibia would join seven other countries at the qualifiers.

“Namibia will participate with seven other countries for only two spots in the World Netball Championships,” Kandetu said.

The Brave Warriors’ local-based players held their second training session in Accra on Thursday morning on a bumpy school pitch, which left coach Tom Saintfiet unhappy with the preparations.

“We have had two training sessions on a bumpy pitch in Accra with our home based players. I will only have one full training session with my whole squad in Gambia and this is clearly not good enough’” he said, adding that the odds were now stacked against them.

Namibia will have five swimmers at the 10th Senior African Championships due to be held in Casablanca, Morocco from 13-19 September.

The swimmers are Christine Briedenhann (14), Micaela Cloete (14), Daniella Lindemeier (18), JP Engelbrecht (17) and Boris Kulikowski (17). Ryan Skinner will accompany them as the coach.

Rusten Mogane, The Chief Administrator of the Namibian Sports Commission told the swimmers to go and represent the country well.

The Tafel Lager Brave Warriors finally had their first training session on Wednesday afternoon, but the circumstances left a lot to be desired as a training pitch had not been booked and one had to be found at the last minute.

An hour before the first training session set for 15h30, team manager Tim Isaacs informed national coach Tom Saintfiet that a training pitch had not been booked after previous negotiations from Windhoek had remained inconclusive.