NEPOTISM! SOMALIA'S SLOWEST ATHLETE

As we look at some of the funniest videos of 2023, we revisit this viral video in August 2023 that had everyone in stitches.

An out-of-shape Somali athlete, Nasra Ali Abukar, clocked the slowest-ever time for the 100m in an international competition. She slumped over the line in 21.81 seconds during the World University Games in China.

But many showed little sympathy for the 20-year-old amid claims of rampant nepotism then. She was actually the niece of the vice-president of the Somali Athletics Federation and was selected ahead of another actual athlete who’d trained for five years.

The Somali Athletics Federation is still hiding under a rock for this national embarrassment.