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Beancounter94:
Messi is on what is called a 'medical exemption' that allowed him to use HGH for a condition he had.

In brief, Messi had a congenital condition where his body was not producing enough growth hormone, and as such needed treatment with HGH...since he was not growing properly without it.

As soon as he reached the age of 14 the treatments stopped.

The appropriate authorities know.

This growth hormone that blessing allegedly took can it be masked with another drug cos it doesn't make sense why she would take something that will be obviously detected SMH.
I know she won't probably be the only top athletes currently that will be using it but unfortunately as they say the person that you catch is the thief SMH again

JohnBullMySon:
Something is strange here. She was tested since so why are they bringing the results now, after she has qualified for semis? Does Okagbare doping sound like something you'd likely hear?

Can't this be appealed. At least let her run today pending confirmation.

it doesn't look good even if she runs and the B sample comes back positive what is the point. feel so bad right now because all she achieved in the past will not be easily remembered instead drug cheat will be what people will attach to her name.

this Olympics is really one kind not that it's time we've had awful games but the avoidable drama with this one is just too much.
realistically our best medal prospects are still in with a shout but I don't know again because anything with the slightest potential to go wrong has gone wrong

humility33:
Ohh okay
I think we need to stop going to this Olympics the last time it was Dalung and now Dare will be blamed...so there is no need if we will keep embarrassing ourselves like this

https://www.nairaland.com/6676698/ioc-backtrack-returns-samsung-phones

This thread should help clear up any questions about the matter

Ppogbae:
I'm having this ominous feeling that this Olympics disaster is an omen of what's to come with our football team in the World Cup qualifiers.

It seems that every aspect of Nigerian life is crashing down and our sports seem to not be an exception.

I hope I'm wrong, but I won't hold my breath.

our sports has been bad since like forever unfortunately it will take a long time to resolve

Despite all the banter I throw his way I really hope this turns out to be the needed push to get his career back on track.

charlesemeka85:
Azubuike okechukwu joins sivaspor

Yeah she looks better physically and more relaxed. We shouldn't put her under pressure. Like you rightly said she's not the favorite hopefully that will help her zone in to run her best ever race.

M7even:
i saw the ease with which okagbare ran. despite that we still need to go to the drawing board. baring injury to the other top athletes from usa, Jamaica and ivory coast i doubt if she can win a medal. i see she has slimmed down, which is equally good for her.

Yeah you are right but hopefully the energy she has conserved should help her for the semis. One thing about the heats is you don't want to go and run a sub 11 time and burn yourself out but I agree Frazer Pryce is a different beast. I believe Blessing can reliable do sub 11s maybe not always back to back hopefully she saves that for the semis.

JohnBullMySon:
She eased up because she is running a heat. Her time has already qualified her. Even Frazer pryce ran 10:89. That time will not win any medal should she repeat it in finals.

Everything is not gloom and doom our 100 meter athletes Blessing and Nkwokocha ran well and qualified for the semis. Okagbare ran a good time despite easing up towards the end. Nwokocha who looks a successor to Blessing ran a personal best of 11.00 which is very good just a matter of time before she dips below 11 seconds. Okagbare still has the best chance of making the finals of the two. She has been given a good lane (Lane 5) in the semis let's just see how it goes.

dozai:
Naija na last. How did we get to this level.

charlesemeka85:
Terem Moffi is FC Lorient Player of the Season

good one well deserved praying for an injury free better season from him

do4luv14:
Bro that's not a nice word to use, his property would had been OK,but his father's is not good at all,

What he was talking about had been what makes me angry with the other guy, that you had to call me, to let go,

Had to go read your post again, then I let go

So bro playing, do apologize to him, and let's discuss football

Guy I didn't insult his father all I said was that nairaland isn't anyone's property (except for Seun) which is a fact. Since he find it sensitive for his parent to be mentioned I agree calling him into it was wrong on my part. for some reason he has gone out of his way to provoke me but I've decided it's not worth engaging in a back and forth that will not add anything to me.

Like most people I come here to catch my fun and sometimes engage in stimulating debates so no wahala peace.

quickberry:
Ogun kill u there for mentioning my father.

nothing will kill me if baba God says it will not kill me so your curse is useless. I did wrong mentioning your father but again you have decided you want to come at me for whatever reason best known to you. I can also show crazy but life is too short to be beefing someone on a faceless forum. I repeat again but this time rephrased Nairaland is not your personal property to be determining how or what I should post. You are not the moderator of this section post your content and mind your business. Till today I haven't had any interaction with you so your issue with me is really strange. Going forward please ignore my posts and I promise never to respond to anything you also post deal? have a good night God bless

No o Nairaland is his fathers property that we have to pay subscription to him to post. As if any one stopped him from posting football related stuff.

humility33:
I even start following this thread before you self
Started with kick off Nigeri a but anyway insulting chris was too far you shouldn't have insult him

He stopped even before me and codemanaics started

Guy seriously this is childish of you. Football is mainly discussed here but from time to time especially when our national teams are inactive we talk about other things which is not deliberate but often dovetails from discussions about football or sport. Me and the guy already said we will stop derailing and take our talk to another thread but this your notice me act of mentioning my post is not on. Please from now on mind your business and don't quote me in the future.

quickberry:
Cc seun

Rule 1

Federal character of fraud and cyber crime

BlueRayDick:
See as dem write United States of America Vs ....

America has a higher population of white people but no prizes for guessing which demographic is poorer, so sorry the more black people leading to more poor people excuse won't stick.

codemaniacs:
This is a sports thread leave politics out of it.

Black south Africans have the higher population so there will always be more poor black south Africans than whytes same way there are more rich black south Africans than whytes but the population statistics will not agree.


For example:
If there 5 million Whyte people and out of that only 3.5 million are rich that's 70% while if there are 20 million black south Africans and out of that only 11.5 million are rich that's 55%.

So when the media is telling you the figures they'll say 70% whytes are rich while only 55% blacks are rich but if you look at the figures you'll notice that the amount of rich black south Africans is triple that of whytes.

It's still a mortal blow. 2 of our relay teams don't have enough runners plus the lady triple jumper don't remember her name now has missed out despite her impressive performances. I do get you that from a realistic medal perspective our best shots were unaffected.

JohnBullMySon:
Our main athletes like Okagbare, Amusan, Oduduru, are still in. The dopists are all inconsequential.

Well all the Caribbean countries like Jamaica are doing fairly well but I don't know why African nations (read black) have always found a way to F things ups.

The British ran Nigeria to boost their own country's economy. Nigeria having good railways and stable electricity wasn't because they loved us but to ensure smooth logistics and exports of raw materials to British industries.

Whites staying back would have resulted in another form of apartheid. Other than the threat of malaria I think the British just looked at us and thought that the stress of subjugating who were stubborn and fiercely independent wouldn't have been worth the wahala. Better to use proxies to continue to ensure smooth exports and financial benefits to Britain.

humility33:
Lol... somehow it appears the presence of the Caucasians in large numbers in countries somehow help in that country development

I cant wrap my head if there exist any country in the world that is like 95% blacks populated and it is developed even outside africa countries like haiti is languishing in poverty, corruption and under development

The time the british managed nigeria prior they start leave in droves Nigeria was way better and progressive in development than it is now, the railway system, kano...makurdi,enugu and others were functioning, there was stable electricity and education was greatly encouraged but ever since the Nigerians took full control it has been serious drawbacks that the country keep drifting backwards though we can as well blame the military juntas but not forget the corruption,electoral malpractice and tribal politics of the first republic prompted the military intervention and also the shehu shagari government according to amilca cabral has no equals in corruption as at then and that necessitated his overthrown

I do believe had it been the whites(british) stayed back like they did in south africa Nigeria would have been better developed i understand unlike in South africa, west africa was not habitable to the whites so much reason for the tag "west africa the white man's grave" the tropical climate and the infestation of malaria really ended many lives of the british..southern Africa was seen as a place they can settle and so they choose stay back even though they obviously denied the blacks access to basis essentials likeeducation etal and the dehumanization and others but notwithstanding their presence helps alot in the country infrastructural development and the likes

Men this olympics pa ro is going from bad to worse. Just read a World Athletics communique that 10 out of the 23 track and field athletes we took to Tokyo are ineligible to compete due to infractions surrounding non-compliance with out of competition testing. Athletes haven't been named yet but seriously praying it's not Ese Brume, Okagbare and Amusan

humility33 and do4luv14 guys it's ok calm down. No need insulting each other over policies or actions you have no power over. We can agree to disagree.

Stay cool guys.

To think we had it in our hands makes it harder to stomach

fabyom:
This loss by Dtigers is affecting my sleep.
The last time I felt this way is 1994, Nigeria vs Italy world cup. Germany! Baggio!

Might be a tall order is Esther one of the top rated in her division?

IMHO our most realistic chance of getting a medal might be in wrestling especially in the female division. Ese brume the long jumper, Amusan the 100 meter hurdler, maybe and that's a big maybe Blessing Okagbare and our relay teams. Any of our basketball teams getting a medal will be a huge bonus.

Ppogbae:
We have a chance at medalling this week as Esther Toko will feature in the women's single scull rowing finals. All the best to her!

Reminds of a match between the SF and Germany in the quarter finals of the olympics in Athens 2004. Our keeper then Precious Dede leapt up to catch a floated cross from the German winger. The German forward practically flattened our goalkeeper to head the ball in but the ref looked away. Our Nigerian supporters pa ra sotey dem nearly cause riot. Game was held up for some minutes after that awful call. Honestly if the match had been played in Nigeria the ref will count herself lucky if she didn't chop beating from irate fans.

BascoVanVeli:
I do! Women's football is very racist.

She still connected very well so who cares what she pulled back. The referee is not paid to read minds. Was it a dangerous and careless tackle or not?

Beautiful beautiful analysis by Group Captain Shehu Sani. His explanation of the capability of the Tucano is one of the best, most thorough and yet simple analysis i've heard.

Like he rightly said Nigeria is not a rich country that can afford to buy every fancy jet that we hear about. We are fighting terrorists/bandits/ insurgents so we need something that will give us the best advantage to deal with these groups. From his technical analysis of what the Tucano is capable of it's clear as day that buying the planes looks to be a smart decision.

Nigeria is not fighting a conventional war that requires air supremacy against your adversary where the more expensive turbo jets would have come in. Hopefully in the future when the economy is doing much better and the threat of insurgency and terrorism finally ended we can take our time to make more strategic buys. From the observations of the Group Captain it seems we will have to buy a few more attack helicopters able to operate especially at night to really press home our advantage.

His analysis has also given me a better appreciation of why our Alpha jets have been crashing and not adequate. Sometimes when you hear of complaints of fighters jets not joining the fight to repel an insurgent attack one appreciates difficult in keeping some of these old planes in the air.

One can only hope and pray that our pilots fly the plane with the required skill and competence to finally help mortally wound all terrorists and insurgents.

Dasuki why?

Hisvoice:
Woow. Seems these Super-Tucano aircrafts are what Nigeria seriously need based on the analysis from this retired Major. Very simple and easy to understand details here

Watch this TVC video (FYI, Main Technical analysis start from 11:33 minutes)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwKZYBhtT4w

Make una free am now 2 weeks sha done pass lol

Neobulletzz:
FOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL

My guy me sef I wonder! Just pass the ball to banda and inshallah suddenly Zambia has improved

fabyom:
I did! Except for the first goal against China which came through a lucky header, all they have been doing is to give the ball to Banda to run towards goal from 30 metres to score. What's fantastic about that?

But why have they been so awful lately? They have the talent

Ppogbae:
France defeats USA. The nightmare continues

The Zambians did very well against China from an attacking (thanks to Banda) point of view however their defending leaves a lot to be desired. Today's SF still struggle against the big teams but I can boast that we will not be chopping cricket scorelines like we used to do in the past.

The fact of the matter is football is all about winning games if you can't win people will barely remember whether you 'tried' or not.

labas370:
Noo... I'm not talking about missing from the olympics. I'm talking based solely on what i watched yesterday and their improvement since 2016 i have been following the zambia female teams.
They might not get to win a match. They have made a huge improvement from the thrashing they got 5 days ago to this... man, if that is not an improvement, then i don't know whatelse is an improvement.

As someone that is more into female football, i'm very proud for what zambia did.
And coming to the SF, well, there's no place i said that the SF will not beat them but that they will find it difficult to do so.
There are some improvements which the SF needs to to.

Did you watch the match against portugal? if yes, you will notice that immediately we rasied the tempo of our game against portugal, didn't give them any space, marked all their body and ball movements, with timed passes, runs etc, we were able to get a draw from that match. Then, imagine keeping that same tempo from the start of the match till the last whistle. What do you think the scoreline would have been against portugal?
That's what happened against china.
Imagine them playing us like that with that too much pressure, ofc, we might win them but they will make our players to commit many fouls and a lot of mistakes which will lead to them scoring too.

Today is not the first time the SF have missed the olympics infact the last one we qualified for was in 2008 but guess what during this same period we haven't been to the olympiad we have won many AWCONs and qualified for every single world cup.

Football is improving at least let Zambia win a match at the olympics but comparing the falcons to them.

labas370:
Man, i don't know who is a kid. Someone is telling you something based on reality and you still talking about former stuff.
Football is improving. Like play like play, SF missed the olympics. Weren't them QFinalist when we missed it?

Like i already replied someone, the zambia that played china and with the way they played them and high tempo, it will be very difficulty for the SF to beat them.