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…As team moves into Olympic Village today Blessing Okagbare’s experience and bright performances will be a tonic to the track and field athletes of Team Nigeria when they begin competing from Friday July 30th.
Favour Ofili and Ruth Usoro, both US based collegiate athletes, who came into the Nigerian Olympics radar late in the qualifiers, have completed two of the three mandatory out of competition tests, OCT, required and are awaiting final clearance.
While Okagbare will be competing in the event for the third time since she made it to the final at the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012, Nwokocha, the fastest home-based athlete since Mercy Nku ran 11.04 seconds in 1997 in Benin, will be making her debut in the event at the biggest sporting fiesta on earth..
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