Nigeria's Women Relay Team Banned From Rio Olympics
Category: Sports News
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has thrown
out Nigeria’s 4x400m women’s relay team out of next month’s Olympic
Games in Brazil.
Nigeria’s disqualification is as a result of Tosin Adeloye testing
positive to a banned substance at the Confederation of African Athletics
(CAA) Super Grand Prix/Warri Relays in Warri, Delta State on July 24,
2015.
Adeloye, 20, was a member of the Nigerian quartet
that finished 4th in Beijing in August, 2015, at the IAAF World
Championships. Adeloye was banned for 8 years and all the results she
has achieved, individually or jointly, has been annulled. The IAAF has
also removed the times the Nigerian team ran in Beijing from the 2015
top list on its website.
Adeloye 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, Complete Sports reports
Other members of the Nigerian team include; Regina George, Funke
Oladoye, and Patience Okon-George. They came fourth at the IAAF World
Championship in Beijing last August.
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