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The eight Nigerian track and field athletes with outstanding out of competition tests (OCT) took the tests yesterday and are now awaiting the results today before returning to the Olympic Village in Tokyo in time for the start of the athletics event on Friday According to World Athletics anti-doping rules, athletes are expected to have three OCTs before they can compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics which got underway last Friday. Mostly affected in the Team Nigerian camp are alternate athletes who missed either one or two of the tests for unavoidable reasons. Others are student athletes in USA colleges who didn’t undergo the required number of tests while in school. ....
These postponements naturally affected nations’ preparations for qualifying tournaments and Team Nigeria was not an exception. In a bid to get Team Nigeria’s qualifying series back on track, the federal government made sure the ‘Nigerian Olympics’, the 20th National Sports Festival was held in Edo State after it also suffered several postponements. With the conclusion of the festival which equally served as qualification series for some athletes like Grace Nwokocha who won the women’s sprint double of 100m and 200m events to ensure her qualification for the Olympics, the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports has now shifted focus to the Tokyo Olympics. ....