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Mugabe orders arrest, detention of Olympic team for not winning medal

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8 years ago

August 25, 2016

The President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has ordered the detention of its athletes who just returned from the 2016 Olympics in Rio for not winning a medal.

Mugabe is awed that the closest any of the athletes from his country came to winning a medal was 8^th position and has ordered the Police Chief to arrest and detain all the athletes who represented the country.

“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 neighbours Botswana did, then why do you go to waste our money?

“This situation is like an impotent man who is married to five 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 takes 10 years to 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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