Nigeria’s Osoba knocks down opponent in round Of 16

• Ghanaian Boxer Suspended Over Drugs • Go For Gold, Weightlifting Boss Tells Lifters

Team Nigeria started its campaign in boxing event on a good note, yesterday, as Abdul-Afeez Osoba defeated his opponent from Bahrain, Carl Leviticus, in the Round of 16 match of men’s light-middleweight bout via a technical knockout.

Nine boxers, four men and five women are representing Team Nigeria at the Games. The male boxers are Abdul-Afeez Osoba (Light middleweight), Adeyinka Benson (Middleweight), Innocent Ehwarieme (Light heavyweight) and Ifeanyi Onyekwere (Super heavyweight). The female boxers are Yetunde Egunjobi (Light flyweight), Elizabeth Oshoba (Featherweight), Cynthia Ogunsemilore (Lightweight), Bolanle Shogbamu (Light middleweight) and Jacinta Umunnakwe (Middleweight).

Ghanaian boxer, Shakul Samed, has been suspended from the Games after testing positive for a banned substance. The Commonwealth Games Federation Anti-Doping and Medical Commission confirmed that the sample of Shakul Samed, a boxer from Ghana, violated anti-doping rules for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Samed’s A sample was found to contain the banned diuretic and masking agent Furosemide, the Commonwealth Games Federation said in a statement.

The Commonwealth Games Federation suspended Samed with immediate effect for violating anti-doping rules. Samed has the unfortunate honour of becoming the first athlete at this year’s Games to fail a doping test.

The light-heavyweight boxer was scheduled to face Luc Jean Rosalba on Friday but did not show up for the weigh-in.

Meanwhile, the President, Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF), Dr Ibrahim Abdul, has charged the country’s lifters to go for gold in weightlifting, which started yesterday.

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