An Egyptian synchronised swimmer has claimed she was forced to spend £200 of her own money on new training kit for London 2012 after Egypt’s Olympic Committee gave its 117-strong team “fake” tracksuits.
Yomna Khalaf claimed on Twitter that the gear supplied was obviously not authentic, and athletes have had to pay to replace it.
She wrote: “The bags for example have big nike logo in the front and the zippers are addidas [sic]. It’s so frustrating that we had to pay extra 2000 [Egyptian] pounds to have other proper stuff to wear so that we can look okay not even good — We’d rather wear plain white or black shirts than this stuff!”
Khalaf claimed that, after questioning the standard of the kit, she was told by team officials to accept it or “have nothing at all”.
