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Mbango situation

10.12.2010 World

African Athletics United facebook informs that Radio France Internationale and Cameroon’s newspaper Le Jour reports that the French federation has taken steps to obtain a shorter waiting period before triple jump double Olympic champion Françoise Mbango can represent her new country internationally.

In accordance with IAAF rules n athlete has to wait for 3 years after getting his new citizenship, Mbango can’t represent France before April 2013. The president of Cameroon’s federation, Jacques Sébastien Mbous said he hasn’t received any official communication from the French federation so far. Mbango is double olympic winner in triple jump (2004 and 2008) and did not compete at all in 2010.


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