“Considering the increment of COVID-19 contaminations, the public authority rA source demanded, notwithstanding, that the choice, required only two days before the initial service in Tokyo, was on the grounds that “the service can’t pay” the expenses.
Guinean media likewise asserted the pullout was monetary as opposed to wellbeing for Guinea, which has always lost an award in 11 Olympics appearances. egrettably chose to drop Guinea’s interest in the Tokyo Olympics as it is worried by safeguarding wellbeing of the Guinean athletes,” the public games serve said.
. Notwithstanding, a source near the public authority in Conakry said the choice not to send his group of five was an outcome of monetary imperatives. “Because of the resurgence of variations of Covid-19, the public authority, restless to save the strength of Guinean athletes, has chosen with lament to drop Guinea’s cooperation in the Tokyo Olympics”, composed the Minister of Sports , Sanoussy Bantama Sow, in a letter to the leader of the Guinean Olympic Committee which was seen by TBEN.
The five-in number group contained Fatoumata Yarie Camara (free-form wrestling), Mamadou Samba Bah (judo), Fatoumata Lamarana Toure and Mamadou Tahirou Bah (swimming) and Aissata Deen Conte (sports, ladies’ 100m).
