IAAF Disqualifies Nigeria’s 4X400 Women Relay Team
Nigeria, winners of the women’s 4x200m at the IAAF/BTC World Relays, Bahamas [/caption]
Nigeria’s hope of winning a medal in the track and field event at next month’s Rio Olympic Games hit a brickwall on Thursday as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) disqualified the country’s women’s 4x400m.
It was learnt that a member of team Nigeria 1600 relay quartet, Tosin Adeloye, tested positive to a banned substance at the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Super Grand Prix, which took place in Warri, Delta State on July 24, 2015.
Adeloye’s positive drugs test and subsequent ban for eight years, means that all the results she achieved from the time of the test – individually and jointly – will be cancelled.
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According to Complete Sports, “Nigeria’s two other fast times of 3:29.94 achieved in Durban last month and the 3:31.27A achieved in Nairobi in April 2015 will not place among the best 16 nations eligible to compete in Rio.”
The IAAF has already removed the times the Nigerian team ran in Beijing, from the 2015 top list on its website.
The other members of the relay team were Regina George, Funke Oladoye and Patience Okon-George.
