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 month.
According to IAAF, the Nigerian team was banned because one
of them, Tosin Adeloye, tested positive to drugs during the Confederation of
African Athletics (CAA) Super Grand Prix/Warri Relays in Warri, Delta State on
July 24th last year.
Adeloye’s positive drug test and subsequent ban for eight
years means all the results she achieved from the period she tested positive,
individually and jointly will be disregarded. The Nigerian team can no longer
forward a new replacement.
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