By Akinwale Kasali
The hope of Team Nigeria ending the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with a Medal seems to have been dashed, finally.
The country’s brightest hope of registering its name on the Medal Table, Hurdler, Tobi Amusan has failed. She is missing on the line-up fie the 100 meters hurdle race.
She shockingly failed to make the cut.
Amusan finished third in the Heat One of the Semi Finals behind United States of America’s Grace Stark, and Bahamas’ Sprinter, Devynne Charlton.
The World Record holder, clocked 12.55 seconds to finish third after a poor start off the block in lane six of her heat.
She was a couple of meters behind her opponents by the first few hurdles.
She attempted a recovery in the latter stage of the race but had fallen too far behind and came third-place finish.
The upset came in the third and final heat.
Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent and Samba-Mayela Cyrena of France finished fourth and fifth in the heat with times of 12.44 seconds and 12.52 seconds each.
Also, Team Nigeria men’s 4×400 has been disqualified from the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The South Africa men’s 4x400m relay team has been included in the final by the referee.
Nigeria was disqualified for lane infringement.
Team Nigeria men’s 4×400 quartet of Emmanuel Ojeli, Ezekiel Nathaniel, Dubem Amene, and Chidi Okezie finished 2nd in their semifinal heat.
They ran a season’s best of 2:59.81.
With this development, the possibility of getting any medal looks zero.
Three Nigerians made the finals of the Women Long Jump. Sadly, the trio of Ese Brume, Ruth Usoro and Ochonogor finished Fifth, 10th and 12th respectively.
Nigeria us about to witness its poorest Olympics outing in recent history.
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