Following the declaration of 10 Nigerian athletes ineligible for the Olympics by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) over the Out-of-Competition Testing
, the Nigeria’s Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has urged the rest of Team Nigeria’s athletes in the Olympics Village to remain focused on doing the country proud at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
He said the situation is being managed in collaboration with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria and urged athletes at the Games Village to remain focused on doing their motherland proud.Anako revealed that the 10 athletes were not test positive for any banned substance, but alternate and foreign student’s athletes, whose tests did not meet with WADA sample collection and analysis standards.
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