Breaking News English

Egypt's Olympians are after it was discovered they have been fake equipment to use at the London Olympic Games. Yomna Khallaf, one of the team’s synchronised swimmers, highlighted the in a series of tweets this week. She wrote: “The bags for have a big Nike logo in the front and the zippers are Adidas.” The fake was clearly from convincing. Ms Khallaf also tweeted that she had to out more than $300 from her own pocket to buy the appropriate . She added: “It's so that we had to pay extra...to have other stuff to wear so that we can look okay, not even good.” She later tweeted that: “They are new clothes now from Nike UK!!”

The Egyptian Olympic Committee’s secretary general, Motaz Sonbol, said he was to find out that the equipment was not " from Nike". However, the committee's chairman, general Mahmoud Ahmed Ali, defended the of the "counterfeit" gear because of his country's economic conditions. He said: "We with a Chinese distributor in of Egypt's economic situation.” The incident has caused in Egypt with many people saying it is a embarrassment for the country and a disgrace. Sports goods manufacturer is also that “the athletes will have received products that do not Nike’s quality standards”.