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

Ceasar1:

Na wa woo, It's Zobo Now.

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

yenex1: lmao.*mama jude abeg give me zobo, mix am with kunu

jennylove7575: I said it, there is something fishy about that drink. The name is odd.. The meaning if zobo in my native dialect is......"wide pusssy" or "slacked pusssy" hmm Na wah!

Josh316: The coach may be right.

Mind you, she tested positive to the usual masking agents of drugs NOT any performance enhancing drugs. Due to the newer types of designer drugs developed by some pharmaceutical companies for some dubious athletes and the new practice of using diuretics to erase evidence of such use hence masking the presence of the trace components, the World Anti-Doping Agency decided to test instead for the presence of these masking agents which are diuretics. Now Thiazide is a class of diuretics and that was what the young girl tested positive for.

Funny enough, many people do not know that Zobo is made from the commonly known HIBISCUS flower. This flower has many health benefits including lowering blood pressure due to its diuretic properties. Diuretics are commonly prescribed to hypertensives to reduce blood volume and reduce pressure subsequently.

If indeed she went ahead to consume this zobo drink, it shows that her coaches were abreast of vital information and funny enough must be commended (strange yeah?) and the girl must now learn to listen to her coaches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus#Health_benefits

http://www.drugs.com/npp/hibiscus.html

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.

Ceasar1:

Na wa woo, It's Zobo Now.