Says no case of injury was reported A new twist to the in­jury story of Blessing Okagbare and the Athlet­ics Federation of Nige­ria, AFN excuse for the sprinter’s failure to show up for the 200m women’s event in Beijing 2015, where the IAAF Athlet­ics World Championship held emerged with the di­rector of Medical Depart­ment, National Sports Commission (NSC) Dr. Abubakar Mu’azu, insist­ing that there was no re­port of injury on the ath­lete in the first place.
Speaking in Congo, venue of the on-going 11th Africa Games, Dr. Mu’azu, a former Su­per Eagles’ team doctor disclosed that the com­mission did not receive any report on Blessing Okagbare’s injury as she claimed.
He said Okagbare’s with­drawal from 200m race at the World Athletic Cham­pionship was a surprise to the commission and no report of her injury had been received.
“If she’s here to compete in the relay event, that’s her choice. But all I can tell you is that she has no injury”. Muzua stated.
Speaking on the issue of doping, Dr. Mu’azu said Nigeria can forfeit gold medals at the Games holding in Congo Braz­zaville instead of being caught in drugs enhance­ment performance. Full story http://ogudos..com.ng/2015/09/squad-nigeria-doctor-exposes-okagbare.html

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