Blessing Okagbare banned from Rio 2016

Nigerian sprinter and Commonwealth
queen of tracks, Blessing Okagbare-
Ighoteguonor, has been banned by the
National Sports Commission (NSC) and
the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN),
following her appearance at the Zurich
Diamond League on Thursday, a few days
after she failed to run for Nigeria in the
200m event at the just concluded IAAF
World Championship in Beijing, China.
Guardian reports that Okagbare was Team
Nigeria’s medal hope at the IAAF
Championship in Beijing but she fumbled
in the 100m final, finishing last, and also
failed to show up for the 200m event four
days later, despite appearing in the warm
up area. She claimed injury and while
some Nigerians were yet to come to terms
on what transpired in Beijing, there was a
shocker a few days ago, when Okagbare
announced she will not be representing
Team Nigeria for the 11th All Africa
Games in Congo, an action which AFN
and NSC finds unpatriotic.





Source:
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