Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Somalia at Olympics 2008 Beijing Results Report for Abdinasir Said Ibrahim and Samia Yusuf

While Abdinasir Said Ibrahim is said to race tomorrow on August 20th, 2008 at 8:55 PM running the 5000m event at Beijin's National Stadium further delaying any hopes of medal contention for the Somalia Team, the final results are in for Samia Yusuf Omar who finished last in the both Round 1 (46th) and Round 1 Heat 5 (8th). 

On August 18th, unfortunately, Samia's Olympic medal hopes came to an end as she didn't make it to the qualifying rounds.  Samia, though persistently punctual, unfortunately ran approximately 7 seconds slower then the second last runner, as she finished at 32.16 seconds.
 
Abdinasir Said Ibrahim, the other Somali Olympic medal hopeful is scheduled to participate in the 500m race even on August 20th. 
 
Very little is known about Abdinasir and Samia as they have very little track experience in International stage.  Also when the focus is on Somalia at all—which is not often in the international media—people remember the power struggle, famine and piracy in the Indian Ocean's Horn of Africa state.  
 
People are more familiar with Abdi Abdirahman, Somali born who is an American citizen participating the 10000m race event.  Abdirahman attended Tucson High School and Pima Community College in Arizona, became an American citizen 8 years ago in 2000.
 
Abdirahman first represented the United States at the Athens and Sydney Olympics in the 10,000m last Olympics in 2004. He also finished 15th in this year's 1000m running for the United States.
 
Somali blogs and news  will keep you posted on any additional reports coming of out of Mogadishu about this story. 
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