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Topless runner stripped of Euro championships gold

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It may have seemed like a good idea at the time but Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad’s bizarre celebration in the home straight of the men’s 3,000m steeeplechase at the European championships was to cost him dear.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Approaching the final barrier, the Frenchman had the race and gold medal in the bag, having a enough time in hand to showboat by stripping off his running vest before putting it into his mouth and waving to the crowd.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fans in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich jeered as he crossed the finishing line clear of his teammate Yoann Kowal in eight minutes 25.30 seconds — his third straight victory in the event at the championships after 2010 and 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 29-year-old had the presence of mind to put his top back after the finish, but the damage was done.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was initially shown a yellow card as a warning by an official, but an appeal by Spain on behalf of fourth placed athlete Angel Mullera led to his disqualification.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His French team lodged a counter-protest but that was rejected, with Mekhissi-Benabbad disqualified under IAAF competition rules 143.1, 143.7.<br />Mullera was promoted to the bronze as result of the ruling.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I find that the protest lodged by the Spaniards is anti fair-play,” Ghani Yalouzsa, the technical director of the French athletics federation, was quoted by AFP.<br />But the double Olympic silver medalist is no stranger to controversy. After winning his 2012 Euro gold in Helsinki he was criticized for shoving a mascot who offered him a gift.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The year before, Mekhissi-Benabbad was involved in a punch-up with French teammate Mehdi Baala at the 2011 Monaco Diamond League meeting, trading blows while they were still on the track and earning a five-month suspension from their federation.</span></div>
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Topless runner stripped of Euro championships gold

| credits: cnn.com It may have seemed like a good idea at the time but Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad’s bizarre celebration in the h...

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Okagbare wins Gold, shatters record

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blessing Okagabare was in yet another blistering form yesterday when she not only won the 100 m race at the African Athletics Championship but also set a new championship record of 11 secs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The amazon who blew away strong oppositions at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland to win the double, 100 m and 200 m, was dominant in Marrekech, Morocco as she powered to glory to erase the former record of 11.03 secs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dashing to the finish…(L-R) Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure, Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare and Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce during the women’s 200 metres final at the 2013 IAAF World Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘’I am very happy to have won the title because I just wanted to win for my fans and do my country proud. Just coming straight from the Commonwealth Games, my body is tired, but my coach told me to just focus and execute the race, which was what I did’’, she said moments after the race.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her closest rival was Ivorian Murielle Ahoure but Okagbare noted that the competition was stiffer in Glasgow but acknowledged the challenge of Ahoure and hoped that Nigeria could re-produce having three Nigerians on a bigger platform like they did in Morocco yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘’ Of course the competition was stiffer at the Commonwealth Games, but that is not to take anything away from Murielle Ahoure. She is a great athlete. It was good that we had three Nigerians in the final but this is Africa. I am hoping that we can have this kind of representation on a bigger platform, like the World Championships and the Olympics’’..</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Okagbare by her records has virtually won everything this summer. She won the IAAF Golden League in Lausanne, Switzerland and Monaco and went to the Commonwealth Games where she sent tongues wagging with her her doubles win in the 100 m and the 200 m. She erased the records.</span></div>
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Okagbare wins Gold, shatters record

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Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m

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<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>
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Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m

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Okagbare gets $7, 000 bonus for gold medal

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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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Okagbare gets $7, 000 bonus for gold medal

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Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 100m final in Glasgow

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sprinter Blessing Okagbare just won Gold in the Women's 100m for Nigeria in the Commonwealth Games. She won in a time of 10.85 seconds in a new Games record, making her the second fastest woman of all time in World 100 metres. She beat Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart and England’s Asha Phillip who came second, third and fourth respectively. Blessing becomes the first Nigerian winner of this title since Mary Onyali back in 1994. You go Blessing!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The African championship silver medallist pushed Commonwealth No.1 and compatriot Obioma Okoli into the silver position.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">India’s Punam Yadav, the youngest lifter at 19, took bronze.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She followed her compatriot, Chika Analha who won gold Saturday after she recorded a lift of 107 kg in clean and jerk event.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That brought to six the number of medals won by Nigeria in weighlifting, placing her atop the medal table in the event.</span></div>
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