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Olympics: Blessing Okagbare Tests Positive To Dope; Suspended

The happiness of Nigerians seeing two athletes flying the country’s flag at the 100 metre semi-finals is short-lived. This is just as highly decorated athlete Blessing Okagbare is under provisional suspension for testing positive to HCG.

The AIU has provisionally suspended Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria, with immediate effect after an out-of-competition sample collected from the sprinter tested positive for human Growth Hormone, (HCG) a prohibited substance on the 2021 WADA Prohibited List.

Okagbare will no longer compete at the Tokyo Olympics, where she was set to run in the women’s 100-meter semifinal. The drug test sample was analyzed in a laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency and when the positive test was discovered, the AIU was notified.

Word was passed along to Okagbare while she was in Tokyo after she competed in the first round of the 100m on Friday. Okagbare is an Olympic silver medalist in long jump from the 2008 Games.

The AIU issued the following statement:
“Earlier in the week, the AIU announced 20 athletes had been pulled from competing at the Olympics because they did not meet mandatory drug testing requirements being from countries that are considered ‘high risk’ if their respective anti-doping protocols are not up to par. 10 of the athletes were from Nigeria and the Athletics Federation of Nigeria admitted to lapses on their anti-doping control. Several of the athletes staged a protest within the Olympic Village on Friday.”

Okagbare won long jump silver at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing whereas at the 2013 World Championships she took long jump silver and 200m bronze.
At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 she won the 100m and 200m.

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