a wonderful silver for Okagbare ... first medal in over 10 yrs

Gracious Okagbare. She tried her best. Luck was not on her side. She can win another medal tomorrow. Congrats Nigeria.

Silver, but she has to improve on hitting d board

Blessing silver, better.

akintun: Silver, but she has to improve on hitting d board

bros please congratulate her before saying this ...tanx.

up 9ja

Congrats to blessing
Dayum this brittany reese chic came thru

Nice.
Congratulobia.

To be honest with you am disappointed cos my mind was all on Gold for blessing

Anyhow at all at all naim bad pass congrats

deene:

bros please congratulate her before saying this ...tanx.

up 9ja

Nigeria has never won a gold at d WC, and Okagbare is our only hope. I believe dat she would do it in d 200m. She is unlucky to be competing against some of d all time greats in her events.

Congrats Blessing.

Silver is not bad. Congrats blessing...

Bu i'll like to know if Blessing is really a Nigerian product. Did she grow up or school in America? Where does she train. If she can come this far then why's it difficult for other home grown athletes.

Afam4eva: Silver is not bad. Congrats blessing...

Bu i'll like to know if Blessing is really a Nigerian product. Did she grow up or school in America? Where does she train. If she can come this far then why's it difficult for other home grown athletes.

Blessing is very much home talent. She started out in Nigeria and only got a scholarship to study in America after she did well in triple jumps at national sports festival. Then she moved to Long jumps, then her coaches saw she was good at sprints too.. and today, we have a beautiful athlete who is good in jumps and sprints.
There are still talents in Nigeria. Warri axis seems to be producing constantly. Lagos too.

I think she trains in the us

She is also mostly self sponsored that's why she runs in most of the diamond lig events to raise funds

Congrate blessing

10000M female, About to start

blessing na born and raised sapele babe from delta she schooled and grew up in naija until after 2008 olympics in china, she now went to texas for her university education. sponsorship from delta state govt

Dibaba has never lost a 10000M before

Let she what she can do now.

Good success story..

She needed a boost to get there..

Dibaba!

what has happen to inter house sports in naija schools ? do they still exist at all.

k-solo2013:
what has happen to inter house sports in naija schools ? do they still exist at all.

Sadly most people take their children to private schools and most private school don't have even a football pitch talkless of track and basketball court.

Sad for our sports development

Until there is an investment in sports, youth restivenss cannot be curtailed

As west afrikans, we have the natural strenth for sprints but it needs to be systemized like the jamaicAns

As usain and asafa are phasing out

We have yohann blake and now bailey cole

k-solo2013:
what has happen to inter house sports in naija schools ? do they still exist at all.

2 things: Football and Lack of infrastructures. Without sounding too boastful, I think at least 2 members of the super eagles can run faster than our fastest 100m. That is why the female are producing talents in athletics unlike the men.
We still have abundant talents. Lara Omotosho, Divine Oduduru, Seye Ogunlewe, Tobi Ashamu, etc are names that will come through in the coming years. Also Stephanie Kalu, Kemi Adekoya. Lets hope Blessing's medal can make Nigerians open eye to long jump again. It fetched us our first olympic gold.

k-solo2013:
what has happen to inter house sports in naija schools ? do they still exist at all.

public and some private schs still do inter- house and inter-schools sports in Delta state

i notice that most of our female athlete are americans who cant make the yankee team chosse naija as 2nd choice.

Awwww.. Inter-house sports. I didn't participate in any event, was selling ice cream abi na water mixed with saccharine to my fellow students. We started from the bottom now we here.

This Brittany Resse is highly unpredictable, she struggled to qualify for the finals only for her to suddenly jump a 7.01 to win gold. I wonder why she managed a 6.57 in her qualifiers when she is a 7.0+ jumper on a good day.

Congrats okagbare!...it aint easy mehn,i ran 100m in skul on a standard track.i nearly collapse.then i started respecting bolt!

Dibaba looks like adaobi.

Dibaba wins 10m

AyodejiCharles: This Brittany Resse is highly unpredictable, she struggled to qualify for the finals only for her to suddenly jump a 7.01 to win gold. I wonder why she managed a 6.57 in her qualifiers when she is a 7.0+ jumper on a good day.

It could be mental.... it could be drugs... I no trust these athletes again

Dibaba!!!!