Nigerian officers have informed the BBC they’re making an attempt to work out how Favour Ofili’s title was left off the entry record for the ladies’s 100m at Paris 2024.
The 21-year-old sprinter was anticipating to compete in three occasions at her first Olympics: the 100m, 200m and girls’s 4x100m relay.
However Ofili was informed that she had not been registered for the 100m earlier than Friday’s heats.
She subsequently shared a blistering assertion on social media saying: “I’ve labored for 4 years to earn this chance. For what?”
There may be confusion as to what occurred, with each Nigerian officers and governing physique World Athletics denying duty.
“We are attempting to get to the foundation of it, as a result of she certified in our trials and the end result was despatched to World Athletics,” Solomon Ogba, a vp of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, informed BBC Sport Africa in Paris.
“We simply confirmed that. Usually World Athletics will ship [entries] for Paris 2024. That’s the place the confusion is.”
Nevertheless, World Athletics, the organisation liable for drawing up begin lists, has confirmed to BBC Sport Africa that Ofili was solely entered in two occasions – the 200m and the ladies’s 4x100m relay.
Nigeria’s sports activities minister, senator John Owan Enoh, stated the saga shall be investigated and there shall be “thorough sanctions” for these discovered culpable for the oversight.
