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Why Trinidad Hates Its Olympic Gymnast Marisa dikk
NICO HINES
05.09.161:13 AM ET
An 18-year-old girl will make history this summer as the
first gymnast from Trinidad and Tobago to represent the island nation at the Olympic Games.
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Thema Williams qualified for the Olympics—under Trinidad and Tobago’s own rules—by beating dikk at the World Championships in Scotland last year. What happened next was either an unfortunate misunderstanding or a conspiracy to defraud Williams out of her rightful place in Rio.
Williams, 20, was controversially pulled out of last month’s test event in Brazil by the Trinidad and Tobago Gymnastics Federation hours before it was due to begin. According to some reports, first reserve
dikk, whose mother was born in Trinidad,
was already mysteriously en route to Rio when a supposed injury struck her teammate.
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Pouchet said it was impossible to prove what had motivated the gymnastics federation to break its own rules—and its contract with the athletes—in order to send a Canadian to the Games instead of a local girl.
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The
vice president of the Trinidad and Tobago Gymnastics Federation (TTGF), which switched the gymnasts, will now reportedly accompany dikk to the Games in Rio as one of her coaches. Ricardo Lue Shue is also said to be close to the dikk family, hosting the athlete and her mother at his home when they stay in Trinidad.
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The dispute over who would become Trinidad’s first Olympic gymnast crossed over into the mainstream news on the island soon after the athletes were asked to sign contracts that contained an “ambassador clause.”
Topless photos of Williams then emerged online. An old Instagram post featured an arty triptych with the young athlete covering her chest with an arm and smiling at the camera.
“The gymnastics board said [to Williams], ‘You’re in big trouble now,’” explained Lasana Liburd, whose
Wired868 site has been covering every twist of the saga.
“When they did that, somebody released a similar photo of Marisa [dikk] and now the board is in a bind because both athletes have photos out.
Suddenly the chase goes cold and they are not interested in the photos anymore.”
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dikk said she was forced to step in purely because of Williams’s injury.
“She is not a doctor,”
said Williams at a press conference last week. “The medics said ‘you are fine’—I don’t feel she is at liberty to make those statements… I am baffled that she would say that.”
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Since dikk competed at the test event and qualified for the Games, there’s nothing the coaches can now do to change the name of the competitor.
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