By HARRY HAWKINS



 

SEVEN Cameroon Olympic athletes have gone AWOL, their country's sporting bosses have confirmed.

The five boxers, one swimmer and a footballer are believed to have fled the squad's HQ to avoid returning to Africa.

A spokesman for Cameroon's Ministry of Sports and Physical Education confirmed the six men and one woman had vanished from the Games.

Mission head David Ojong said: "What began as rumour has finally turned out to be true. Seven Cameroonian athletes who participated at the 2012 London Olympic Games have disappeared from the Olympic Village."

Ojong said a reserve goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team, Drusille Ngako, was the first to disappear. She was not one of the 18 finally retained after pre-Olympic training in Scotland.

While her teammates left for Coventry for a warm-up match against New Zealand, she vanished.

A few days later, swimmer Paul Ekane Edingue and his personal belongings were also not found in his room.

And on Sunday, boxers Thomas Essomba, Christian Donfack Adjoufack, Abdon Mewoli, Blaise Yepmou Mendouo and Serge Ambomo disappeared from the Olympic village.

International Olympic Committee officials said on Tuesday they had heard nothing about the missing athletes.

“We are unaware of it,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said when asked whether organisers had heard of the mass disappearance.

It is not the first time Cameroonian athletes have disappeared during international sports competitions.

At past overseas sporting events games as well as junior soccer competitions, several Cameroonians have quit their delegation without official consent.

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Na hunger go strangle them for UK, them never knw anything, those boxers go box them selves last last... Dunno how people could be so stupid, a whole Olympians turning fugitives..... Maybe them don bring their work permit from cameroun sha...

UK of all places... Dem go soon hear am!