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Blessing up now...prayer!

Nigeria still in 2nd place. Blessing will jump just before Reese. Tense!

Down to the final 8. Tense moments now. Blessing can def win this gold. But I will take silver and her to conserve energy for the 100m final.
Coming up soon...my pretty Omolara Omotosho tries to make the finals as well as Regina George.

A potential threat to Blessing's silver, Janey from America will be dropped after round 3. So its now a straight race between Ble ble and Reese! Reese winning so far

Blessing jumps....badly again. 6.68m. She needs prayers now ooo. 3 more chance to hit at least 7.01m

Reese has a no-jump. Good for Blessing on count back. Nigeria still in silver position. Blessing yet to produce her 7m and over

Into round 3. The bottom 4 will be dropped here and the top 8 proceed to do 3 more jumps. I am happy to see coach John Smith there himself. He's a coach of champions.
Blessing reaction is that of anger and hunger. I expect her to be more agressive in round 3. 7.09m still my bet

Blessing's 6.58m is not bad at all. On countback, she will take the gold if she jumps over 7m

Blessing up next. Not good. She swerved in the air...4 more chances

Brittany Reese just jumped 7.01! Okagbare now in 2nd place. Blessing will come out to jump 7.09m in round 2.

Blessing jumps...6.89!!! She never disappoints me. She's in the lead. Others should now play catch up. Nigeria winning gold as at round 1. 5 more rounds to go.

Any jump by Blessing will shoot her to 1st position. Blessing normally jumps 6.80 and above on average

Reese jumps 6.50m. This lady doesnt look in form, but she's known to produce when least expected.

Long jump underway. First place is at 6.70m. Blessing jumps in 8th place. Already 2 no jumps. Brittany Reese up next. No shaking yet

I'm ready for the final of the LJ. Now looking for a back up stream as I expect BBC to focus on Shara Proctor only.
The startlist for the womens 100m semi final is out. Okagbare is lucky again, she has the easiest semi. She can afford to stroll and conserve energy for the all important final!
#teamBlessing

CFCfan: Spot on. Though Blessing can also run the bend.

Yes she can, but if the baton gets to Blessing in 5th place, she can chase down anybody to 3rd place. We just need a 3rd leg person who can push further to give Blessing a chance to chase.

Nigeria will win her first medal in over a decade at 16.00 today! Blessing to jump 7.23m to win gold. See you guys at 4pm.

Stephanie Kalu should run the 1st leg in the relay. Asumnu 2nd leg, and Blessing to anchor.

Blessing didnt break sweat! Long jump tonight wont sap her too

Blessing will stroll to an 11.05 or thereabout. I expect her to be sluggish at the blocks.

Asumnu in 3rd place, up next....Ble Ble!
Our relay team not bad!

Here comes the first Nigerian!Meanwhile English Gardner is doing too much to impress herself. Im not impressed

deene: kerron stewart is in good form o ... I can't wait for this finals

She's a pretender! The best she will get is a 6th or less.

Having watched the first heat of the women 100m, I think 2 or 3 Nigerians might just sneak through to the semi finals. Blessing will not break a sweat to go through. Gloria Asumnu needs her trademark super start. Looking forward to meeting the new gal too on track.

Our athletes who performed yesterday:
Blessing Okagbare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9cIZbX374g

Omolara Omotosho (my pick for the future)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAGuF6ItvDM&list=PLz-gfY4so9kZXG-toCIeL-21GJ7goeZj9&index=33

Regina George (She's been ranting on twitter this morning about her relationship)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5sJSEDVBqA

Leo Momoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlO3A6N8KMs

Good Morning peeps.... anyone with a link other than BBC? I am tired of these BBC chatters. 80% of chatting, 20% of actual action. Not nice

Overall a decent day for Nigeria. 3 women qualify for next round, 2 men crash out. Blessing Okagbare out early tomorrow morning to 'jug' for the 100m heat. A 11.20s should see her through. 8.55am Nigerian time. See you then

biolabee: I'm sick of the british commentators

See them salivating over mo farah, ordinary somali refugee..

If he is caught with a bomb now, they will call him somalian

Muppets

If bolt was british, I will quit watching athletics

If Bolt was British The build up to this race would have started 3 weeks ago with daily footage of Bolt victories. British commentators are the best at bigging their athletes up. James Desaolu is a prime example. Some said he could win Bronze!

cocky British! Why lean back when you're not in first position

adaobi123: Dasaolu !!! Come on !!

He is a one-trick pony. His body is biscuit. It breaks down easily

The Nigerian 100m champion will be expected to go through to the semi-final if he gets below 10.20s.

[quote author=ola_pluto]Not yet...Its either her or Funmi Jimoh on countback...Actually Brittany Reese sneaks through![/quote]