2 swimmers get Rio Olympic’s wild card

Mahfuzur Rahman Sagor and Sonia Akhter Tumpa will participate in the Rio Olympic Games as the International Olympic Committee approved ‘wild card’ entries for them.

Mahfuzur will compete in the 50m freestyle swimming event while Tumpa will participate in the breaststroke competition.

Earlier, shooter Abdullah Hel Baki and archer Shamoli Roy were awarded wildcard entries to the Olympics scheduled to begin from August 5 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The swimmers and athletes, who have been given wild cards, will now be able to represent Bangladesh in the Greatest Show in Brazil.