Nasra Abukar Ali, a Somali sprinter, took more than 20 seconds to finish a 100-meter race. The fastest 100-meter women's sprint recorded was 10.49 seconds. Abukar is slow, but plenty of people could ...

A viral video from a 100-meter race in China that caused confusion, plenty of laughs and claims of nepotism has now sparked an investigation into the Somali Athletic Federation. On Aug. 1, a women’s ...

The fallout from Somalia’s runner scandal has been –– ironically –– fast. Khadijo Aden Dahir, chairwoman of the Somali Athletics Federation, was suspended on Wednesday after Nasra Ali Abukar, who is ...

Somalia's sports minister publicly apologized Wednesday and ordered that the chairwoman of the national track and field federation be suspended after a seemingly untrained female sprinter represented ...

The Somali athletics federation chairwoman was suspended after an untrained sprinter ran a 100-meter race in an international competition.