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I am writing this on Thursday morning to meet production deadline. Truth be told, as we approach the finish line of Paris 2024, Nigeria’s name is nowhere near the top of the final medals table. Of course, Nigeria is not a sports super power.
Nigeria’s all-time second-fastest woman, Rosemary Chukwuma, has been added to the World Athletics International Registered Testing Pool.
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, who inexplicably failed to qualify for the final of the women’s 100 metres hurdles at the just-concluded Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has been presented the opportunity to put the records straight by the Wanda Diamond League, in Lausanne, Switzerland, today.
Following their impressive performances at the just-concluded Paris 2024 Olympics, women’s 200m and men’s 400m finalists, Favour Ofili and Samuel Ogazi have moved several steps up in the latest World Athletics rankings released on Wednesday evening. Also, on the upward swing is Shot Put finalist, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi. As authoritatively predicted by Sportsnow.com.ng, Ofili, who finished sixth in the 200m final, moved from pre-Paris 2024 Olympics number 31 to eighth in the 200m event with a ranking score of 1,315, up from 1,226 (89 points). The 21-year-old also moved from 216 in the women’s overall ranking (1,305) to 138 (1,337). Ogazi, who finished seventh in the final, also had a geometric rise, moving from 23rd pre-Paris 2024 Olympics (1,264) to 12th (1,322) in the 400m. In Shot Put, Enekwechi moved a step up from eighth pre-Olympics (1,348) to seventh ( 1,370) after finishing sixth in the final at the Olympics. Nathaniel Ezekiel, a 400m hurdler, also moved from 29th (1,268) to 23rd (1,273) in the latest ranking, although he did not get to the final. Long jumper, Ese Brume, however, dropped from her pre-Olympics number three position (1360) to fourth (1,350) despite finishing fifth in the final in Paris.
Team Nigeria’s poor performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics has ignited a firestorm of criticism, with many describing it as the country’s most lackluster Olympic showing in recent times.
“What will the Sports Minister John Owen Enoh tell President Bola Tinubu now that Nigeria failed to win a single medal at the Paris Olympics?” That was the big question by the chairman of Gombe State Athletics Association, Shuiabu Gara-Gombe, on Friday, shortly after World Record holder, Tobi Amusan, failed to qualify for the final of the 100m hurdles event at the Paris Olympics.
PARIS : Defending champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico blazed through the 100-metre hurdles semi-final on Friday, though the United States' Alaysha Johnson looked to be a threat with the fastest time of the morning.