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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Somalia’s sports minister on Wednesday 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-meter race.<\/b><\/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 on Tuesday.<\/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

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

A video of the agonizingly 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

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Africa-Press – Zambia. Somalia’s sports minister on Wednesday 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-meter race. 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