Template:Did you know nominations/Camil Doua
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Camil Doua
- ... that Camil Doua could not qualify for Mauritania at the 2020 Summer Olympics as he would have had to give up his French citizenship?
- Source: Sud-Ouest ("Comme j’ai la double nationalité française et mauritanienne, je pensais pouvoir représenter la Mauritanie, mais à l’époque il me fallait renoncer à la française mais ce n’était pas envisageable ... [later in 2023] J’ai alors appris que la loi mauritanienne concernant les binationaux avait changé.” Camil a alors sauté dans un avion direction le siège du Comité olympique. Sensible à son histoire, et surtout à sa détermination, son président Abderrahmane Ethmane lui a accordé sa confiance, ”de toute façon ils n’avaient rien à perdre”. En moins de deux mois, ses papiers étaient faits : le rêve parisien venait de se concrétiser." Translated, per Google Translate "As I have dual French and Mauritanian nationality, I thought I could represent Mauritania, but at the time I had to give up French but that was not an option ... [later in 2023] I then learned that the Mauritanian law concerning dual nationals had changed.” Camil then jumped on a plane to the headquarters of the Olympic Committee. Sensitive to its history, and especially to its determination, its president Abderrahmane Ethmane placed his trust in him, “in any case they had nothing to lose”. In less than two months, his papers were done: the Parisian dream had just come true.")
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/pending
- Comment: Hoping a French speaker could review, just to make sure the translation is accurate.
Created by BeanieFan11 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 204 past nominations.
BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC).
- Spotted this on WT:DYK, was going to drive-by but I see I got beaten to it by several hours. Armed only with the knowledge that 'there is an interesting hook in that article', I would have proposed ALT1 ... that the Olympic swimmer Camil Doua represents a country in which "the only existing swimming pools are those in hotels"?--Launchballer 05:57, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- I like that one – I think my preference is for ALT1 now. Thanks for the suggestion! BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:56, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- For the reviewer, the source for ALT1 is the same Sud-Ouest piece: "'En Mauritanie, il n’y a que le football. La natation ? Il n’existe pas d’infrastructures, les seuls piscines existantes sont celles des hôtels', révèle Camil. Difficile dans ces conditions de former des nageurs de premier plan. Voire des nageurs tout court." – translated – "'In Mauritania, there is only football. Swimming ? There is no infrastructure, the only existing swimming pools are those in hotels,' reveals Camil. Difficult in these conditions to train top-notch swimmers. Or even just swimmers." BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:59, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- I like that one – I think my preference is for ALT1 now. Thanks for the suggestion! BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:56, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
