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IAAF Charge Blessing Okagbare Refusal To Cooperate With Investigation After Failing 2 Drug Test
Nigeria’s most profitable feminine athlete, Blessing Okagbare has been charged by the integrity unit of the Worldwide Affiliation of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for failing two drug exams and refusing to cooperate with investigations into her alleged doping.
Blessing Okagbare dilemma with the IAAF began when she was suspended from the video games by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after a Progress Hormone was present in her system throughout an out-of-competition check in June 2021, simply earlier than the semifinals of the ladies’s 100m on the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Video games in August 2021.
On Thursday, October 7, the AIU introduced that along with testing optimistic for a Progress Hormone, one other prohibited substance, recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) was discovered after one other check in July.
The 2 failed drug exams are a part of the three new prices which were introduced in opposition to Blessing Okagbare together with her third offence now being her failure to cooperate with investigations of her two failed exams.
“The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has issued prices in opposition to Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare in relation to a few separate disciplinary issues,” the AIU stated.
“Particularly, it’s alleged that the athlete didn’t adjust to a proper requirement to provide related paperwork, data and digital storage gadgets, which was issued to the athlete by the AIU on September 15,”
Blessing Okagbare, a Delta State born athlete has nevertheless denied all prices and has requested that every of them be submitted to a listening to earlier than the Disciplinary Tribunal.
Blessing Okagbare, 32, is the primary face of ladies sports activities in Nigeria boasting an Olympic and World Championships medalist within the lengthy bounce and a world medalist within the 200 meters. She additionally holds the Girls’s 100 meters Commonwealth Video games document for the quickest time at 10.85 seconds.
