 elite Nigerian Monobob and skeleton competitor Simi Dele Adyapur has lodged a formal complaint with the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation alleging gender discrimination in the sports allocated to men and women at the Beijing Games. In a letter to the IBSF lawyers for the 2018 Pyeongchang, Olympian said she was excluded from the 2022 Olympic Monobob event via a single sport due to an insider's and willful gender disparity and the number of sled sports made available for men and women. The Monobob was introduced to the Olympic program for the Beijing Games with the intention of bolstering the number of women who can compete in the Bobsleigh events in Beijing. It's really highly frustrating. I have made so much progress just seeing how I've grown and developed in the sport and I wanted to be right there competing with the best in the world and so it's really frustrating to have that cut short not because of anything that I did or any you know lack of talent or skill but simply because the rules in place are unlawful and discriminatory and so that's something that you know is just so frustrating and disappointing to know that I'm watching the Olympics on my couch not because I didn't earn the opportunity to compete but because of the rules in place and that's what I really want to focus on making change around. We know that there is unequal access but one of the things that Olympic solidarity does is provide pathways for that access to happen so an athlete from Africa or indeed Oceania I mean you're focusing on Africa but we could we could look at all the five continents will need to be able to access the sport whether it's getting training getting coaching getting equipment and that is something that Olympic solidarity can provide. It's not an automatic it's not something that we do in all NOCs but if the NOC and the athletes come through that pathway we're there to support it.