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The AIU confirms that it has charged and provisionally suspended Tobi Amusan (NGR) for three Whereabouts Failures. The Charge will be heard by the Disciplinary Tribunal and determined before the World Athletics Championships. Furthermore, under the athletics integrity unit rules, three missed tests is taken as a failed drugs test and can lead to a …
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Tobi Amusan will compete in Nigeria for the first time since breaking the 100mH World Record at the 2023 Nigeria Athletics Trials in Benin. Amusan was in Ostrava last Tuesday, Lausanne on Friday, Stockholm on Sunday, and now in Benin for the national trials. The Nigeria Athletics Trials holding at the Samuel Ogbemudia stadium, will …
In her first race of the season, Favour Ofili is .01s away from equalling the world-leading time in the 200m. The Commonwealth 4X100m gold medalist beat all comers at the Razorback Invitational athletics meet in Arkansas. Running for the Lousiana State University, LSU, Ofili hit the time of 22.53 to beat Talitha Diggs of Florida …
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National Record (NR) holder in the women’s Long Jump, Ese Brume, and sprint hurdler Tobi Amusan, tops the 22 selected athletes by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) for the World Championships in Eugene, USA. Brume Amusan Leading The Stellar Cast Brume, a Bronze medallist at the 2019 edition in Doha, will be aiming to …
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By Funmilayo Fameso In January 2022, the US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) accepted the highest influx of Nigerian student-athletes, with over 50 of them signed with different colleges on scholarships. Most of these athletes made immediate impacts at the NCAA Eastern and Western Conferences prelims, where an astonishing 17 out of 26 competing Nigerian athletes …
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Favour Ashe is the latest sprint sensation for Nigeria in the United States National Collegiate Athletic Association. Another NCAA season, another sprint star for Nigeria as the men’s sprint section comes alive. The 19-year-old clocked a blistering 9.79 (+3.0), the fifth-fastest time in NCAA(all conditions). Since the exit of Olusoji Fasuba, Nigeria has struggled to …
Sprint sensation, Favour Ofili, broke Blessing Okagbare’s 200m National Record at the Tom Jones Memorial in blistering 21.96s. The Louisiana State University star becomes the first Nigerian woman to break 22 seconds mark in women’s 200m. The world U20 silver medalist started with 60m indoors this season, despite specializing in 200m and 400m. Last week, …
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