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Okagbare to be awarded 2008 Olympics silver medal

    Okagbare to be awarded 2008 Olympics silver medal

Blessing Okagbare, Nigeria’s queen of the tracks, is to be awarded an Olympic silver medal nine years after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The development arose after Russian, Tatyana Lebedeva,

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Okagbare: Sometimes I feel like running for another country

    Okagbare: Sometimes I feel like running for another country

Blessing Okagbare, track and field athlete, says her disappointment with sports administration in Nigeria sometimes tempts her to consider naturalising. However, the 2008 Olympics women’s long jump silver medalist says

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Okagbare-led relay team finishes last in 4x100m final

    Okagbare-led relay team finishes last in 4x100m final

The Team Nigeria relay team led by Blessing Okagbare finished last in the women’s 4x100m relay of the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympics, on Saturday. The Nigerian quartet — made up of

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Okagbare crashes out of Olympics 100m

    Okagbare crashes out of Olympics 100m

Nigeria’s biggest hope of securing athletics medal at the ongoing Olympic Games faded out with the loss of Blessing Okagbare in the 100m women race. With a time of 11.09

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Rio Olympics: Okagbare qualifies for 100m semi-finals

  Rio Olympics: Okagbare qualifies for 100m semi-finals

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare has qualified for the women’s 100m semi-finals at the ongoing Rio Olympics. She clocked 11.16 seconds to

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PROFILE: ‘African track queen’, ex-US sprinter… 10 Nigerians who ran fastest in 2015

  PROFILE: ‘African track queen’, ex-US sprinter… 10 Nigerians who ran fastest in 2015

The International Federation of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has listed 10 Nigerian athletes among its compilation of fastest runners in the 100m category,

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Okagbare beats Usain Bolt to Guinness world record

  Okagbare beats Usain Bolt to Guinness world record

Blessing Okagbare, Nigerian sprinter, beat record breaking star, Usain Bolt, to the 2016 Guinness world records feat as the athlete

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Nigeria bans Okagbare from 2016 Rio Olympics

  Nigeria bans Okagbare from 2016 Rio Olympics

The National Sports Commission and the Athletics Federation of Nigeria have placed a ban on Blessing Okagbare. The sprinter has

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Injury stops Okagbare in 200m

  Injury stops Okagbare in 200m

A hamstring injury prevented Blessing Okagbare from taking part in the 200m event at the World Championships in Beijing. The

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Okagbare places last in women’s 100m final

  Okagbare places last in women’s 100m final

Blessing Okagbare finished in last place in the women’s 100m final at the World Championship in Beijing. Okagbare, who is

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