{"id":320881,"date":"2023-08-02T21:43:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=320881"},"modified":"2023-08-02T23:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T23:59:05","slug":"official-suspended-after-runners-embarrassing-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=320881","title":{"rendered":"Official suspended after runner's 'embarrassing' effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somalia's sports minister publicly apologised and ordered that the chairwoman of the national track and field federation be suspended after a seemingly untrained female sprinter represented the African country at the World University Games in China and took more than 20 seconds to finish a 100-metre race.<\/p>\n

Minister of Youth and Sports Mohamed Barre Mohamud said his ministry did not know how 20-year-old Nasra Abukar Ali was selected to compete in the women's 100 at the student games in Chengdu this week.<\/p>\n

The ministry separately released a statement directing the Somalia Olympic Committee to suspend national athletics federation chairwoman Khadija Aden Dahir amid allegations that Nasra Abukar was a relative of hers and was given the chance to compete at the games because of that.<\/p>\n

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Somalia's university union said it had not sent any runners to China as part of an official Somali team.<\/p>\n

\"Nasra<\/p>\n

A video of the agonisingly slow run by Nasra Abukar was shared across social media and Mohamud said that the performance was embarrassing for Somalia.<\/p>\n

In her qualifying race, Nasra Abukar was immediately left behind by the other runners and finished about 10 seconds after the winner.<\/p>\n

Despite being dead last, she did a little skip in the air as she crossed the finish line.<\/p>\n

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