Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Maldives sun sami gayyatar duniya daga FINA don aika 'yan wasa biyu (daya namiji da mace) zuwa gasar Olympics. Dan takara Ibrahim Nishwan ya fara fitowa yayin da Aminath Shajan ta yi fitowa ta biyu, tare da na farko a cikin 'yan mata na mita 50
gasar wasannin Olympics ta London, inda ba ta cancanci shiga wasan kusa da na karshe ba. Nishwan ya halarci gasar tseren mita 200 na maza na wasannin Asiya na 2014, amma an dakatar da shi bayan ya juya doka. Shajan a baya ta lashe tagulla a gasar 'yan mata na mita 800 na wasannin Asiya ta Kudu na 2016 tare da lokacin 10:41.41. Su biyun ba su yi horo a cikin yanayin da sauran 'yan wasa suka yi ba. A wata hira da aka yi da shi, Shajan ya ce "suna yin tafiya a cikin teku" kuma "a wasu lokatai jellyfish sukan cije [su]". Nishwan ya fara a layin na huɗu. Ya zo na uku a cikin zafinsa kuma ya kasance na 71 a duka, yana da matsayi 55 da ya cancanci cancanta tare da lokaci na 26.72 seconds. Shajan ya fara ne a layin farko kuma ya gama karshe (ban da Federica Pellegrini da Michelle Coleman wadanda ba su fara ba) tare da lokacin minti 1:05.71.