Writing in her social media space, Flavour Ofili the Nigeria’s national champion in the women’s 100- meter sprint informed her fans that she “will not be competing in the 100 meters at this Olympic Games.” According to her, Nigeria’s sports agency namely AFN and NOC failed to enter her for the competition she qualified.
It is with great regret that I have just been told I will not be competing in the 100 meters at this Olympic Games. I qualified, but those with the AFN and NOC failed to enter me. I have worked for 4 years to earn this opportunity. For what? pic.twitter.com/eehuKziNaU
— Favour Ofili (@FavOfili) July 30, 2024
“Ofili won Nigeria’s national title in June with a time of 11.06 seconds. Her personal-best time of 10.93 would have made her a contender to race in the final.A recent graduate of LSU, she is still entered in the 200 meters and the 4×100 relay. According to the Olympic news service, Ofili missed the Tokyo Games because Nigeria had failed to meet minimum testing requirements for a number of its athletes, as required by track’s Athletics Integrity Unit.”
“This isn’t the first time Nigerian athletes have run into this problem. At the 2019 world championships, a paperwork mix-up almost disqualified Divine Oduduru and Blessing Okagbare from the meet, and they were allowed to race only after appealing to World Athletics.”
Nigeria has proven over and over again that she is not a serious country. An athlete that devoted time and resources to prepare for the Olympic game cannot compete not because she is not qualify but for the corruption and incompetence of the country of her birth.
Ofili is a recent graduate of Louisiana State University LSU.
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