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A Somali sports activities official was suspended for nepotism on Wednesday after a viral video confirmed an obvious novice runner skipping throughout the end line in final place at a world competitors.

The video, which circulated broadly on Wednesday, confirmed Nasro Abukar Ali competing within the third warmth of the primary spherical of the ladies’s 100-meter race on the International University Sports Federation’s (FISU) Summer World University Games in China.

Ali begins sluggishly out of the blocks as the opposite runners burst ahead, and shortly fades far behind the pack earlier than jogging towards the end line and ending with a small skip.

She completed in 21.81 seconds – greater than 8 seconds slower than the second-last runner, and greater than 10 seconds behind the winner of the warmth.

The video instantly made waves on social media, prompting ridicule, disbelief, and for some, anger.

“It’s disheartening to witness such an incompetent government. How could they select an untrained girl to represent Somalia in running?” one particular person wrote on Twitter, now often called X, in a submit with greater than 47 million likes. “It’s truly shocking and reflects poorly on our country internationally.”

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Somalia mentioned it had suspended Khadijo Aden Dahir, the chairwoman of the Somali Athletics Federation. It alleged Dahir had engaged in “acts of abuse of power, nepotism, and defaming the name of the nation in international arena,” in a letter addressed to the Somali National Olympic Committee and tweeted by the ministry.

Somali Minster of Youth and Sports Mohamed Barre Mohamud mentioned Ali was not a “sports person nor a runner.” According to Forbes, Mohamud had earlier “apologized” for the incident in a Facebook video. “What happened today was not representative of the Somali people,” he mentioned in Somali, Forbes reported.

Though his letter referred to nepotism, no direct hyperlink was made between Dahir and Ali.

On Tuesday, the Association of Somalia Universities mentioned in an announcement it had not despatched any runners to the occasion.

In Wednesday’s letter, the Ministry of Youth and Sports mentioned an investigation discovered there was no “registered Somali University Sports Association,” with out elaborating on the affiliation and its function within the competitors.

The letter added that the ministry intends to “pursue legal action against both the Chairman of the Athletics Federation of Somalia and individuals responsible for falsification of the Somali University Sports Association.”

CNN has reached out to Mohamud for remark by means of the East African nation’s Sports Ministry, and to the organizers of the FISU occasion, the Somali National Olympic Committee, Somali Athletics Federation and World Athletics.

The Summer World University Games are ongoing in Chengdu, southwestern China.