Kirabo Namutebi feels her improvement, on a scale of one to 10, is “a solid nine” after spending 11 months at the Fina Development Centre in Kazan, Russia on a swimming scholarship. Namutebi was with her brother Tendo Mukalazi and their improvement over a host of Russian, African, European and international galas in that period was very clear. For example for 50m freestyle, Namutebi left Uganda last April with a national long course record of 26.98 seconds made in mid-2019. But she struggled to keep under 27 seconds and with next to no training over the Covid period, her form was bound to dove…