Heartbreaking! Nigeria's 4x400m Women's Relay Team Thrown Out of Rio Olympics...Shocking Details

The International Association of Athletics
Federations (IAAF) has banned Nigeria's 4x400m
women's relay team from attending the 2016
Olympic Games holding in Rio, Brazil, next montea.

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.

   

Team Nigeria - Tosin Adeloye (second from left)