Treasurer of Nigeria Weighlifting Coaches Association, Andrew Ekanem has revealed that Chika Amalaha, who was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive to a banned substance at the just concluded Commonwealth Games, might have allegedly got the prohibited substance from her consistent drinking of a local drink called ‘Zobo’

Amalaha, 16, who won the women’s 53kg competition, provided positive “A” and “B” samples that contained prohibited diuretics and masking agents and had to be stripped of the medal she won. Ekanem believes she was the architect of her own misfortune by drinking ‘zobo’. Ekanem said on Brila FM early today that Amalaha had been warned several times against drinking ‘Zobo’, but all the entreaties fell on deaf ears.

The weightlifting coach alleged further that even the medical team warned her against drinking the local drink at the Abuja camp before the Games, but she always sneaked out of camp to have the drink. While expressing dismay over the fate that befell Amalaha, Ekanem who was close to tears alleged thus: ‘‘It was unfortunate that Amalaha was stripped of the medal she won at the Commonwealth Games, I could recall that after she was warned against drinking ‘Zobo’ after the African Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana last May where she won three gold medals, when we returned to Abuja for camping ahead of the Commonwealth Games, she still sneaked out to drink ‘Zobo’ again.’’ Amalaha was Nigeria’s first gold medal winner in Glasgow, equalling the Games snatch record of 82kg with her first attempt before lifting 85kg on her third. According to the International Weightlifting Federation, she was the youngest woman to win a weightlifting title in the Games history.

Meanwhile, after Amalaha was stripped of the medal Dika Toua from Papua New Guinea was awarded the gold medal with the India duo Santoshi Matsa and Swati Singh claiming silver and bronze respectively.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/08/07/commonwealth-games-amalaha-drank-zobo-says-coach/
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lies

Chaii *looking for where to buy zobo nw*

#wanna get highhh

lmao.*mama jude abeg give me zobo, mix am with kunu

Zobo kwa?lol....

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Ivyluvie2: Zobo kwa?lol....

Unibenstudent: Hi my love

hmmm......hullo

I have missed u ivy, what has been happening nah

Ivyluvie2: hmmm......hullo

Zobo addict ?

Someday they will tell us they tested positive to banned substance because they drank Agbo or Alomo.

cbrass: Chaii *looking for where to buy zobo nw*

#wanna get highhh

ppl won't Blv but it might b true...most of dz tinz have performance enhancing shit init.... remember kolo toure said same tin abt wat his wife use to cook with after he was banned for failing drug test....

Wait oooo! This woman that is carrying that thing@pichure is 17...? Ok.... !

Ivyluvie2: Zobo kwa?lol....

Am also a lover of peace

Zobo ko, kunu ....
Eniyan Meji o le padanu iro..

This probably right.. Afterall, it wasn't performing enhancing drugs that she was banned for.. Just Diuretics..

that awkward moment when ur popsi is scolding you and u release a loud fart!

sexymoma: Zobo ko, kunu ....
Eniyan Meji o le padanu iro..

Really?

I said it, there is something fishy about that drink. The name is odd.. The meaning of zobo in my native dialect is......"wide pusssy" or "slacked pusssy" hmm Na wah!

why is everyone doubting ? it's not like you even know the organic/chemical components of ZOBO.

Minankwa

See Wetin stubborn head cause.May stubbornness never lead us to our downfall

TheRealAdonye: This probably right.. Afterall, it wasn't performing enhancing drugs drugs that she was banned for.. Just Diuretics..

Right ko,left ni
Zaniab,big one gallon of zobo for me
naija i hail thee

so we lost our gold medal to zobo? Say no to racism.

Now this is ridiculous.