BEVERLY HILLS, JULY 29, (THEWILL) – Nigeria’s hope of winning a medal in the track and field event at next month’s Rio Olympic Games has dropped by one as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) disqualified the country’s women’s 4x400m.
The disqualification from the event followed Tosin Adeloye’s positive drugs test at the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Super Grand Prix/Warri Relays in Warri, Delta State on July 24, 2015.
She was a member of the Nigerian quartet that finished fourth in Beijing August last year at the IAAF World Championships.
Other members of the team were Regina Goerge 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 subsequent ban for eight years means all the results she achieved from the period she tested positive, individually and jointly will be annulled.
Nigeria had qualified for the event based on the aggregate of the two fastest times achieved by the Okon-George’s led team in the qualification period from January last year to July this year but the IAAF has removed the times the Nigerian team ran in Beijing from the 2015 top list on its website.
Story by David Oputah
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