Somalia runner at middle of controversy after posting ‘slowest-ever’ 100m

Somalia’s sprinter on the FISU 2023 World College Video games caught out for all of the fallacious causes Monday. 

Nasra Ali Abukar, who represented Somalia within the girls’s 100-meter race, crossed the end line at 21.81 seconds, almost 10 seconds behind the warmth’s winner.

A video of Abukar’s efficiency has since gone viral, with the hassle being dubbed the “slowest-ever” in a world contest, according to the Daily Mail.

The Somali Athletics Federation reportedly informed Somali TV that an investigation will probably be launched into the matter, according to Newsweek.

Somali Minister for Sport, Mohamed Barre, stated he plans to carry these accountable for a “misrepresentation and embarrassment” of the nation, according to Somali journalist Hassan Istilla. 

Elham Garaad, a Somali commentator who posted the video on Twitter, slammed the government for its poor choice. 

“The Ministry of Youth and Sports activities ought to step down,” Garaad wrote.

“It’s disheartening to witness such an incompetent authorities. How may they choose an untrained lady to signify Somalia in working? It’s actually stunning and displays poorly on our nation internationally.”

Garaad known as the scenario a case of “corruption,” claiming Abukar is the niece of the senior vp of the Somali Athletics Federation, Khadija Aden Dahir. 

In a separate tweet, Garaad posted a screenshot of a post from Dahir’s Facebook on July 25 the place she congratulates her niece together with a photograph of Abukar. 

“Corruption and Nepotism proceed,” Garaad wrote.  

Abukar reportedly doesn’t have a profile on the World Athletics database or the World College Video games website. 

Whereas 21.81 seconds could also be an affordable time for the typical grownup, it doesn’t stand on par with the standard normal for the World College Video games. 

Comparatively, the U.S. girls’s Olympic 100-meter staff has an 11.5-second qualifying normal.

Abukar’s time continues to be six seconds slower than the 15.26 second-slowest time recorded on the 2020 Olympics for the ladies’s 100-meter.