Breaking: Visa rejections by US embassy prevent Ethiopia from entering full teams in jr races at 2026 World Cross Country Champs

Have you seen how the president tweets about other countries? It's alarming and very pathetic the language he uses. No surprise at all people are looking at this politically.

Says the clown who thinks MTV is off the air because a clickbait headline told him what to think..

I am curious why every relevant and topical post talking about the political reality of this situation is being deleted? This is a Trump policy! This is why this is happening. The Brojos let festering piles of political garbage on this site every single day. Don't start deleting when it comes back to blow up in your face. So soft.

Be specific. What were the 2022 visa issues? How many? Did whole teams get left home? From places Biden was attempting to limit entry from? List them out. It's easy to view through a political lens when Trump and his far right senior advisors use language like "we're going to make it harder to get a visa "keep people from $hithole countries out"

This is Trump's policies coming to roost. That MANY Americans. Including many posters fully support.

Spain and France don’t require a visa to enter the US

$10k for each member of the delegation? Team Ethiopia has 40+ folks… you think this is a real option?

Spot on! As a former State Department employee, I can say this is very accurate. If the applicant cannot clearly and truthfully answer the interviewer’s questions, the visa will be denied.

Media have their own visa process. The most important factor is they need to be from a verifiable media outlet. Unfortunately, our sport has a lot of “media” folks that aren’t truly media.

It’s actually a pretty easy explanation. If they have never obtained a visa before they got rejected. There is no way for the embassy to reject them based on birth certificates that they don’t trust. If that was the case all will get rejected. This is just the current tone of the state department. No need to trash the athletes from Ethiopia by the only excuse you can find. The policy may be right or wrong … but trashing the runners that one their trials using the proper channels and authenticated by the system that is accepted by world athletics is just heartless. I prefer the administrations stance more than you callous and flippant response here

It’s actually a pretty easy explanation. If they have never obtained a visa before they got rejected. There is no way for the embassy to reject them based on birth certificates that they don’t trust. If that was the case all will get rejected. This is just the current tone of the state department. No need to trash the athletes from Ethiopia by the only excuse you can find. The policy may be right or wrong … but trashing the runners that won their trials using the proper channels and authenticated by the system that is accepted by world athletics is just heartless. I prefer the administrations stance more than you callous and flippant response here

So, I am one of the rejects but I am so desperate to get to Tallahsee that I will do anything to get visa. I heard Melania (my favorite person in the world) got a visa at my age due to merit or meretricious activity. I am just like her and I can speak better English (see me type?). So why she stayed and chainmailed her whole family into the USA? And I am on the younger side so please send me contact of billionaire to get me visa. Tanks.

This is hilarious! USA has become untrustworthy to host an international sporting event.

The fourth reich like the 3rd reich putting its thumb on the scale for whites.Can’t compete,so rig it for them.Next Trump will ban the stop watch and magnum condoms because they are racist against white men.

Very good. Ban those age cheat countries

the funny part is that international sports authorities got burned by putting event after event in nasty countries like china, russia, qatar. So they finally said 'good lord let's just go back to usa and europe and deal with the good guys again.'

and then the US gets world xc, world cup soccer, olympics....and we've turned into a massive, massive problem for international sports.

I actuallt feel sorry for the IOC etc. Best plans mislaid etc.

Je vous signale que Kelati était érythréenne , et non éthiopienne.

But they need to have actual documentation to get it. The Ethiopians have been Cheating with in the U20 for years and finally got caught

I know (if that was a reference to my mentioning her), but I was just surprised that nobody seemed to mention that at least one prominent runner had come to the U.S. for a world competition and stayed, although in her case the USG did agree that she had a legitimate claim to asylum.

Not sure. I watched the Trump interview with Joe Rogan last year, and Trump claimed to be sprinting on the treadmill during his physical at such an amazing speed that the doctors were saying "this is unbelievable". So if Trump's story is true, he probably has some running prowess. He might ban some Kenyans next.