Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Elegbeleye-DG-National-Sports-Comm.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye "><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Elegbeleye DG National Sports Comm" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="300" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Elegbeleye-DG-National-Sports-Comm.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye " width="612" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye </span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74839#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> 0</span></span></a></header><div class="post-meta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chef de Mission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye has describedTeam Nigeria as a strong force in World sport.</span></div> <div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elegbeleye was reacting to the sterling performance of Team Nigeria at the ongoing Common- wealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Team Nigerian athletes buoyed by the spectacular performance of hotshot, Blessing Okagbare in the women’s 100 m where she shattered the Games record to win 10.85sec posted amazing results winning three gold and a cocktail of silver and bronze medals. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Odunayo Adekuoreye and Aminat Adeniyi won gold medals in Wrestling while Superwoman Mary- am Usman lifted Nigeria’s name to high heavens with her golden lift.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘’These things are made possible by the love and support of President Ebele Goodluck Jonathan. He has been the backbone of sports and we are happy to be churning out these good results’’, a jubilant Elegbeleye said. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He opined that the sky still looks good for more medals to come the way of Team Nigeria before the Games curtains are drawn on Sunday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘’Our athletes and offi- cials have been remarkable. We’re grateful to Mr Presi- dent and all Nigerians for their support’’, Elegbeleye who has been watching and supporting virtually all the sports said.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye

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Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She did it again! Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4732986936928354531" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7TKhfp5Ux_vd5zTvlIZ1Ub9KFqsIvz_bPpzDNDSJiHBSjp7Hw4-ZiAU2byr99r_3FrAYZZ8ssWPgYjbdVYuarCwRx-F6Cm_xIPrrrDriLp59pwqfDFL98PaLwjEgBDEPHccyvzpZCV4/s1600/Bt5aUqdCIAMAeZG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7TKhfp5Ux_vd5zTvlIZ1Ub9KFqsIvz_bPpzDNDSJiHBSjp7Hw4-ZiAU2byr99r_3FrAYZZ8ssWPgYjbdVYuarCwRx-F6Cm_xIPrrrDriLp59pwqfDFL98PaLwjEgBDEPHccyvzpZCV4/s1600/Bt5aUqdCIAMAeZG.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few days after she won Gold in the Women's 100meters Finals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she's won Gold again in the Women's 200m in a time of 22.25 seconds, completing the Glasgow2014 sprint double. You go, Blessing! </span></div> </div>

Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m

She did it again! Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m A few days after she won Gold in the Women's 100meters Final...

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Bolt denies foul-mouthed criticism of Glasgow 2014

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(AFP) – Usain Bolt denied reports Wednesday that he called the Glasgow Commonwealth Games “a bit shit”, ahead of his appearance in the 4×100 metres relay.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The world’s fastest man accused The Times newspaper of “creating lies to make headlines” after it reported he rubbished the 2014 Games while waiting for a car outside the athletes’ village.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked he was having a good time in Glasgow, the Jamaican sprint star replied “not really” and said that the London 2012 Olympics “were better”, according to The Times.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Bolt’s manager called the claims “rubbish” and the athlete himself took to Twitter to deny the report.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m waking up to this nonsense… journalist please don’t create lies to make headlines,” he wrote.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The six-time Olympic gold medallist is due to make his first appearance in the Commonwealth Games at the 4×100 metres heats on Friday, with the final on Saturday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Organisers are already reeling from the withdrawal of top stars including double Olympic champion runner Mo Farah, cyclist Mark Cavendish and London 2012 heptathlon heroine Jessica Ennis-Hill, while Bolt will only appear in the relay event.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Commonwealth Games Federation spokesman brushed off the reports, saying: “The Glasgow Games have so far been fantastic and everyone there, including the competing athletes, seems to be having a brilliant time.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bolt’s manager Ricky Simms earlier told the BBC that the reports were “utter rubbish”.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The atmosphere in and around the stadiums has been absolutely fantastic and I have absolutely no idea where these quotes have come from,” he added.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bolt arrived in Glasgow on Saturday, and endured an uncomfortable press conference in which he was asked questions about the ongoing crisis in Gaza and the Scottish independence debate.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since then he has largely kept a low profile, but on Tuesday met Prince William, his wife Catherine and his brother Prince Harry.</span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/bolt-denies-foul-mouthed-criticism-glasgow-2014/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_brnBox_cont NA" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/bolt-denies-foul-mouthed-criticism-glasgow-2014/#sthash.Fi3oup2a.dpuf</span></div>

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Okagbare gets $7, 000 bonus for gold medal

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Okagbare.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Okagbare gets $7, 000 bonus for gold medal"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Okagbare" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="246" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Okagbare.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Okagbare gets $7, 000 bonus for gold medal" width="400" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Okagbare gets $7, 000 bonus for gold medal </span></span></h1> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">•As Danagogo directs NSC to pay athletes their bonuses in Glasgow    </strong></h1> </header><div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Commonwealth Games queen of the track, Blessing Okagbare has been rewarded with an instant bonus of $7,000 for her spectacular effort on Monday night, as she cruised to gold winning performance.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An obviously excited sports minister, Dr. Tammy Danagogo, had ordered that the National Sports Commission without delay pay medallists the agreed sums of cash bonus for gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Special Assistant on media to the minister of sports, Patrick Omorodion in a release noted that the minister said he had directed the National Sports Commission to ensure that any Nigerian athlete who wins gold, silve or bronze medals at the games, be paid their bonus instantly.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Federal Government had last week pledged different sums of money to athletes who win gold, silver or bronze medals at the Glasgow Games as a way of motivating the athletes.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Under the arrangement, any athlete who wins a Gold medal will go home with $7,000, Silver medalist will get $4,000 while any athlete who wins Bronze medal will go home with $3,000.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We want to make the athletes happy by paying them the money that the Federal Government promised on the spot. We do not want them to collect it after the Games, but as soon as they win they get their money. This will serve to further motivate them,” the minister said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Danago said the reward is out- side what the government would do for the athletes when they re- turn to Nigeria after the games.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is an instant bonus to be given on the ground by the Na- tional Sports Commission,” he said, adding that “government will still honour and compensate athletes when we return.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I am really very excited at this victory for Nigeria. Blessing Okagbare, like our other med- alists, has really made Nigeria proud. Nigerians are very happy that we are doing well,” Dr. Da- nagogo said after Okagbare’s victory.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Okagbare on Monday night set a new Commonwealth Games re- cord, when she finished at 10.85 secs to win the gold medal.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She beat Jamaican sprinter, Veronica Campbell-Brown to emerge the fastest woman in the Commonwealth and also broke Debbie Fergusonl’s 10.91 sec- onds of 12 years.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Okagbare gets $7, 000 bonus for gold medal

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Glasgow 2014: Gold medallist Chika Amalaha fails drugs test

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div id="headline"> <h1 class="story-header" itemprop="headline" style="font-weight: normal; margin: -2px 0px 18px; padding: 0px 0px 6px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">G</span></span><img src="webkit-fake-url://849CE1FF-3F0D-4462-BE0B-A89CF7E68BD5/imagejpeg" />Glasgow<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;"> 2014: Gold medallist Chika Amalaha fails drugs test</span></h1> </div> <div class="introduction" id="story_continues_1" itemprop="description" style="margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigerian gold medallist Chika Amalaha has been provisionally suspended from the Commonwealth Games for failing a drugs test.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 12px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 16-year-old won weightlifting gold <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/commonwealth-games/28496260" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with a combined total of 196kg in the women's 53kg category.</a></span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 12px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her 'A' sample was found to contain both amiloride and hydrochlorothiazide, which are both prohibited as diuretics and masking agents.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 12px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amalaha will now have a 'B' sample tested on Wednesday.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 12px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amalaha won gold last Friday, as Dika Toua took silver to secure Papua New Guinea's first medal of Glasgow 2014, with India's Santoshi Matsa winning bronze.</span></div> <div class="introduction" id="story_continues_1" itemprop="description" style="margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;"> <br /></div> </div>

Glasgow 2014: Gold medallist Chika Amalaha fails drugs test

G Glasgow  2014: Gold medallist Chika Amalaha fails drugs test Nigerian gold medallist Chika Amalaha has been provisionally suspended ...

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Okagbare sets fastest heat record...cruises to the second

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Blessing-Okagbare.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Okagbare sets fastest heat record"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Olympics Day 7 - Athletics" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Blessing-Okagbare.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Okagbare sets fastest heat record" width="453" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Okagbare sets fastest heat record</span></span></h1> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74180#comments" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…Cruises into second</i></b></a></h1> </header><div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigeria’s medal hopeful, Bless­ing Okagbare has qualified for the second round of the Women’s 100 me­ters event at the ongoing Glasgow 2014 Common­wealth Games.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The African fastest women breast the tape on the dot of 11.20second to set the heats fastest record at the Games. Team England sprinters Sophie Papps, Asha Philip and Bianca Williams had all also qualified from the 100m heats to reach the second round at the Games.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although the Jamaican sprinters were very strong, with Veronica Campbell-Brown, Schillonie Calvert and Kerron Stewart all winning their heats, the fastest time was set by Nigeria’s Okagbare in heat five of 11.20s.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Papps came third in heat four in a time of 11:53sec­onds, Philips set 11:47sec­onds, while Williams was only just edged out by Stewart with a quick time of 11:37seconds.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Okagbare sets fastest heat record...cruises to the second

Okagbare sets fastest heat record …Cruises into second Nigeria’s medal hopeful, Bless­ing Okagbare has qualified for the second...

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