NIGERIA will not be allowed to participate in the women's 4x100 relay event at forthcoming World Athletics Championships taking place in Oregon next month after Blessing Okagbare got an additional one year doping ban that has affected the entire team.
Okagbare, 33, who has an Olympic silver medal in the long jump from the 2008 Beijing...
NIGERIAN sprint queen Blessing Okagbare has been handed down a hefty 10 year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for breaching its doping rules after she was found guilty of a drugs test failure.
Okagbare, 33, who has an Olympic silver medal in the long jump from the 2008 Beijing Games, was provisionally suspended...
NIGERIA'S greatest Olympic medal hope Blessing Okagbare has been suspended from further participation on the games after failing a dope test this morning when she tested positive for using a human growth hormone.
Okagbare, 32, who was on course for at least a medal in the 100 and 200 metre sprints, won her 100m heat...
NIGERIA'S sprint queen Blessing Okagbare has hit out at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) over its negligence after 10 of the country's track and field athletes were balled from participating in the Tokyo Olympics for failing to meet international doping guidelines.
Yesterday, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU),...
NIGERIAN sprint queen Blessing Okagbare has run the second fastest time ever run by a woman in the 100 metres when she romped home in 10.63 seconds at Nigeria's national Olympics trials in Lagos yesterday.
Okagbare, 32, who is getting all set for the Tokyo Olympics due to take place between July 23 and August 8 this year,...
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