 meet the President who is very support of us. What happened during the 5000m final was nobody’s fault.
“They (Rio 2016 officials) changed the call room timing and nobody informed us. We knew that we are going to the field near our village. So we arrived to the right field late that’s why the wanted to deny me the medal,” he sought to clarify.
Sankok had accused officials appointed by the Ministry of ineptitude claiming most were able bodied and insensitive to the needs of disabled athletes, charging some of them drew allowances for the 21 days of the Paralympics programme yet they only stayed for five.
“The race organizers realized that we were not at fault and awarded me the medal. It had nothing to do with officials from the Ministry. All the equipment that we needed was provided too,” Muchai added.
Nancy Chelangat who won 1500m silver echoed her captain’s remarks saying that she only experienced a minor problem with the rope linking her to her guide.
“At one time the race officials would say the rope is too long and at other times said the rope is too short,” she added.
Since returning from Rio, Sankok has sought to compare events at the Paralympics Games to those of the Rio 2016 Olympics fiasco that has seen National Olympics Committee-Kenya officials charged in court.
He strenuously denied he had hired demonstrators to accompany him to EACC headquarters when he was asked to present himself to elaborate his claims where no Team Kenya Paralympics athlete was present.
MARDIN, 12January (BelTA - Anadolu Agensy). - An ampulla, a two-handled round bowl used for sacred purposes, made of 1,400 years old clay, was unearthed in one of the most important trade centers of ancient Mesopotamia, the ancient city of Dara in southeastern Turkiye.
The 1,400-year-old ampulla features the figure of Menas of Egypt and a camel figure on the sides of the bowl, and pilgrimage motifs on the top.
Excavations and research have been carried out for more than 30 years in the Oguz neighborhood of Mardin province, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) away from the provincial center.
The ruins of the ancient Dara city have been compared to the famed city of Ephesus in Turkiye's Aegean region, earning it the nickname the Ephesus of Mesopotamia, the breadbasket of the ancient Near East.
Also, speaking on the importance of the latest finding, head of the excavation team Huseyin Metin said Menas of Egypt​​​​​​​, which appears as a figure on the ampulla, was born in Egypt some 1,400 years ago and killed due to his Christian faith during the Roman era.
He noted that the ampulla is very important because a material, produced in Abu Mena, some 31 kilometers (19.2 miles) from Alexandria, Egypt, is found in the ancient city of Dara.
An ampulla has different forms, particularly in western Anatolia, he said, adding that the ones produced in Egypt's Abu Mena region have a very standard form, with not many examples in Anatolia.
So, the Ampulla shows that Dara had an international commercial and religious network in the 6th century, he said.
The ancient city, founded by the Eastern Roman Empire to protect their border against the Sasanian or Neo-Persian Empire, is a favorite spot for tourists to take photos or newlyweds to pose for their wedding or honeymoon amid historical splendor.
A cistern located some 25 meters (82 feet) under a village house in Dara, which has drawn comparisons to Istanbul's famed Yerebatan Cistern and that the villagers call the "Dungeon," was cleaned and unearthed over painstaking work of around 15 years.Search.
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