KABUL’s Olympic Committee are no longer tolerable.
Nikpa earned the first bronze medal for the country in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. But he left the country in 2014 to protest what he called the Taekwondo Federation’s discriminatory attitude.
The athlete, hailing from the minority Hazara community, did not provide details of the federation’s behaviour that forced him to exit Afghanistan.
However, sources close to him said Nikpa had left the country due to a leadership crisis plaguing the federation and . . .
