Rio: IAAF bans Nigeria’s 4×400m Women’s Relay

Nigeria’s 4x400m women’s relay team has been banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and they won’t be participating at the 2016 Olympics billed for August 5 to 21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This is sequel to Tosin Adeloye’s positive drugs test at the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Super Grand Prix/Warri Relays in Warri, Delta State on July 24, 2015.

The 4x400m women’s relay team include Tosin Adeloye, Regina Okon-George, Margaret Bamgbose and Omolara Omotosho.

Adeloye’s positive drugs test and sebsequent ban for eight years means all the results she achieved from the period she tested positive,individually and jointly will be annulled.

While the trio of Regina Okon-George, Margaret Bamgbose and Omolara Omotosho who have been picked by the AFN may be in Rio after meeting the qualfication standard for the open 400m, Regina George is out as she did not meet the standard and was going to Rio only as a member of the relay team.

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