Khadijo Aden Dahir, the chairwoman of the Somali Athletics Federation, stands down amid studies the sprinter is a relative of hers and was solely entered into the competition due to household connections.

A Somali sports activities official has been suspended after an apparently untrained feminine sprinter represented the African nation at a world athletics event in China.

Nasra Abukar Ali took greater than 20 seconds to complete the 100m race on the World University Games in Chengdu, with footage exhibiting she got here final by a substantial distance.

She additionally gave the impression to be considerably much less bodily match than the opposite opponents.

Despite being shortly left behind by her rivals, Ali did do some skip to have fun when she crossed the end line.

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Khadijo Aden Dahir, the chairwoman of the Somali Athletics Federation, has been suspended amid studies Ali is a relative of hers and was solely entered into the competition due to household connections.

Ms Dahir has been accused of abusing her energy and defaming Somalia and was suspended following a gathering between the nation’s sports activities ministry and its National Olympic Committee.

Mohamed Barre Mohamud, Somalia’s minister of youth and sports activities, has mentioned he doesn’t know the way Ali ended up being chosen.

Somalia’s college union mentioned it had not despatched any runners to China as a part of an official Somali staff.