There it is! Blessing Okagbore is the double
Commonwealth sprint champion. Okagbore gets
an electric start, fades as the white line comes
into her sight, but has enough in the tank to win
in 22.25secs.

Okagbare is signing autographs. Adaobi, what are you waiting for?

Afam4eva: Okagbare is signing autographs. Adaobi, what are you waiting for?

lool

Okagbare becomes the first woman in 12 years to win a CW sprint double since Debbie Ferguson in 2002; and the 11th woman in CW games history to do so

I doff my hat to her!!

adaobi123:

lool

Does your school have an athletic facility?

Afam4eva:
Does your school have an athletic facility?

yes

Oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
we her BLESs to have BLESSING OKAGBARE running for Nigeria

I wish Okagbare will retain the tempo till Rio 2016. There's no reason why she can't be the olympic champion in both the 100 and 200 meters. Who has she not beaten? She has beaten Shelly Ann Fraser pryce, Camelita Jetter, Allyson Felix and Veronica Campbell.

Ese Brume is the first Nigerian woman to win the CW Games long jump event in 40 years.

Yes!!!! Ese Brume and Okagbare has done it again o,, 2 gold, our sponsorship money nor be waste, 2 cow head 4 amaju picnick and Uduaghan

Evestar200: Yes!!!! Ese Brume and Okagbare has done it again o,, 2 gold, our sponsorship money nor be waste, 2 cow head 4 amaju picnick and Uduaghan

Abi O. Those guys go even pop champagne tonight! What makes it sweeter is that both gold medals came within the space of 10 minutes!

Congrats to Ese brume and Blessing okagbare for winning gold.I think all gold medals in this CWG for Nigeria have comed from women.Nigeria now has 8gold and 25 medals.

I love you guys, blessing and ese..

I am just happy we won the long jump, I never expected it.

Pls, can someone explain to me why England has a commonwealth team whereas in the Olympics, Great Britain goes as one team. This is really confusing.

adaobi123:

yes

OK.

Afam4eva: Pls, can someone explain to me why England has a commonwealth team whereas in the Olympics, Great Britain goes as one team. This is really confusing.

I think a decision was made in the UK to allow the Home nations to compete individually in the CWG to give them some measure of independence. Recall that the other 3 home nations were essentially conquered by England and made to form a UK sovereign state.

CFCfan:
I think a decision was made in the UK to allow the Home nations to compete individually in the CWG to give them some measure of independence. Recall that the other 3 home nations were essentially conquered by England and made to form a UK sovereign state.

Maybe England made the suggestion after looking at a rare opportunity for them to win a competition.

Afam4eva:
Maybe England made the suggestion after looking at a rare opportunity for them to win a competition.

Wicked

If the Scots decide to secede from Britain in September, they (Scotland) will compete as an independent nation in Rio 2016.

CFCfan: Ese Brume is the first Nigerian woman to win the CW Games long jump event in 40 years.

this is even makes it sweeter to savor.

I love how BBC fails to focus on/ interview event winners.

Blessing Okagbare...what a lady! Being watching her rise since 2012.

Congrats to Brume too.

Ugonna Ndu competes in the Women's 100m hurdles, heat 1, lane 4 at 9:35pm.
Nichole Denby competes in Heat 3 of the same event at 9:49pm.

Both were born in the United States

Afam4eva: I wish Okagbare will retain the tempo till Rio 2016. There's no reason why she can't be the olympic champion in both the 100 and 200 meters. Who has she not beaten? She has beaten Shelly Ann Fraser pryce, Camelita Jetter, Allyson Felix and Veronica Campbell.

Barring injury, she should keep d tempo, but I'm scared of a certain American called Tori Bowie. D girl is also a long jumper turned sprinter.

That Ese girl surprised me ooooo. I hope this win increase her confident 4 d future. D girl run after winning no be small.

akintun: That Ese girl surprised me ooooo. I hope this win increase her confident 4 d future. D girl run after winning no be small.

Her win surprised me too. Maybe Proctor's hamstring injury cleared the way for the Ughelli girl to win.
She'd definitely carry the momentum into the African Athletics championships

Nigeria came 5th.

CFCfan:
Her win surprised me too. Maybe Proctor's hamstring injury cleared the way for the Ughelli girl to win.
She'd definitely carry the momentum into the African Athletics championships

Procter was d class athlete on show, and I think she would have easily won, but thank God Ese took her opportunity .

Afam4eva: Nigeria came 5th.

Now let's see if 31 year old Nichole Denby can do much better in 3 minutes time.

God Bless Blessing

akintun:
Procter was d class athlete on show, and I think she would have easily won, but thank God Ese took her opportunity .

Also, if Okagbare competed, it would have ended as:
Okagbare- gold
Proctor- silver
Brume- Bronze

I just imagine what Okagbare would have produced if d condition was good. Dat girl would go places. Running a 22.25 in such condition was exceptional .

CFCfan:

Abi O. Those guys go even pop champagne tonight! What makes it sweeter is that both gold medals came within the space of 10 minutes!

Ese Brume will soon join Okagbare in the USA, Uduaghan and Amaju are waiting for her to finish her Education 4rm the University of Benin, so that she can join Blessing in the US and beside, she is just 20yrs old.