The Nigerian Women's 4x400 relay team will not compete in the 2016 Rio
Games, after an athlete who tested positive for a banned substance was
disqualified by the International Association of Athletics Federation.
A spokesman said that
Cuba would now take Nigeria's place after athlete Tosin Adeloye tested positive
for a banned substance.
The news comes at
the end of a tumultuous week in Nigerian athletics.
First Nigerians
were outraged to discover last week that some members of the national team had
resorted to
crowdfunding to pay for their flights to Rio, the result of an
email from the Secretary General of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria which
asked athletes to pay their own way and be reimbursed at a later date.
One athlete said
she received a phone call from her Federation asking her to pay for her own
flight. "It was a bit surprising, because I was [previously] told the
Federation would pay for my flight."
She said that with
her repeated requests for a ticket ignored, she sourced funds independently.
"I've been helped, people have really stepped in and helped. But without
all that it wouldn't have been possible," she said.
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