Ahead of the most anticipated Rio Olympic Games coming up next month in Brazil, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have thrown Nigeria’s 4x400m women’s relay team out of the tournament.
According to an exclusive report by Complete Sports, Nigeria’s disqualification from the event followed Tosin Adeloye (Nigerian sprinter)’s positive drugs test at the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Super Grand Prix/Warri Relays in Warri, Delta State on July 24, 2015.
Adeloye was a member of the Nigerian quartet that finished fourth
in Beijing August last year at the IAAF World Championships. In fact she
ran the third leg in the semi-finals where the team ran 3:23.27
seconds, the second fastest time in Nigeria’s all-time record.
She also ran the third leg in the final. Other members of the team
were Regina George who ran the first leg, Funke Oladoye who ran the
second leg and Patience Okon-George who anchored the team to finish
fourth.
Adeloye’s positive drugs test and sebsequent ban for eight years
means all the results she achieved from the period she tested positive,
individually and jointly will be annulled.
It was also gathered that she once tested positive for the anabolic
steroid Metenolone at the National Sports Festival in Lagos in December
2012, at the age of 16, and was subsequently banned from sports for two
years. The ban ended on January 6, 2015.
While the trio of Okon-George, Margaret Bamgbose and Omolara
Omotosho who have been picked by the AFN may be in Rio after meeting the
qualfication standard for the open 400m, Regina George, who has
laboured to raise over $4,000 from the crowd-funding platform, Gofundme,
is out as she did not meet the standard and was going to Rio only as a
member of the relay team.
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