Namibian athletes Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi withdrawn from 400m Tokyo Olympics by World Athletics
The athletes' coach Henk Botha confirmed the news on Thursday night, but added that he could not comment as he had just received a report from World Athletics that he still had to study.
According to The South African, The duo of Mboma and Masilingi have taken the athletics world by storm, putting on some top notch displays on the European athletics circuit this year in the 400m. Just Wednesday 18-year old Mboma stormed to the finish line in a scintillating time of 48.54 secs. That effectively placed her as the seventh fastest athlete in that event’s history.
Those are the same rules that are currently in the way of other African athletes such as Caster Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui from competing in the women’s 800m this year as they have all refused to lower their testosterone levels using the birth control pills method the publication reports.
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