Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe have ordered the arrest of all Zimbabwean Olympic athletes for not winning any medal in the just concluded Rio Olympics 2016 in Brazil.
Zimbabwe provided 31 athletes for the Rio Olympics but was unable to secure any medal. Report has it that the closest these athletes were to getting an Olympic medal is the 8th position.
President Mugabe speaking to newsmen said they have wasted their country’s resources to sponsor these 31 athletes.
In his words he said
“We have wasted the country’s money on these rats we call athletes. If you are not ready to sacrifice and win even copper or brass medals (referring the 4th and 5th positions) as our neighbors Botswana did, then why do you go to waste our money”
“This situation is like an impotent man who is married to 5 women, what is the essence? I will make sure we share the cost across board for all of them to pay back to government chest even if it take 10 years recoup, now it turns out to be a soft loan we have given them to go and visit Brazil as tourist, they are useless ‘he concluded.
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