Paris Olympics: Ofili not registered, Brume injured, Opeyori beaten, and Ogunsemilore suspended, four bad news for Nigeria on Tuesday

 Since competitions began in the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympic Games last Wednesday it has been raining bad news for Team Nigeria, except D’Tigress’s defeat of Australia, but on Tuesday it poured down heavily.

The harvest of bad news started when one of Team Nigeria’s medal prospects in the women’s 100m Favour Ofili announced on her social page that she would not compete in the heats of the women’s 100m which begins on Thursday because officials of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, the Ministry of Sports Development and the Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) did not register her for the games.

Ofili met all the qualification standards and times needed to be at the Olympics.

Also in the athletics Team Nigerian sprinter Godson Oghenebrume's name is no longer on the entry list for the men’s 100m at the Paris Olympics because he is injured. Rumours have been circulating in recent weeks that Brume has been struggling with an injury.

Efforts to get official confirmation on Tuesday were futile.

Also on Tuesday evening, the captain of Team Nigeria at the Paris Olympics Games Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori was thrown out of the badminton singles event in the first round.

27-year-old Opeyori ranked 104 in the World was shown the exit door by Switzerland's Tobias Kuenzi in straight sets 22-20 and 21-14 on Tuesday at the Games.

Opeyori, a multiple African Champion becomes the seventh member of Team Nigeria that could not go beyond the first round of his or her event in the French capital.

Two out of three boxers representing Nigeria our out while all four table tennis players led by Aruna Quadri were beaten in the first round of the singles competition.

And the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (the CAS ADD) has today, Tuesday confirmed the provisional suspensions imposed on Nigerian woman boxer, Cynthia Temitayo Ogunsemilore.

Ogunsemilor was registered to take part in the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in the Women’s Boxing 60 kg category.

“On 25 July 2024, the Athlete was subject to an out-of-competition doping control for which an AAF was reported for the presence of Furosemide.

“Such substance is prohibited by WADA at all times and is classified as a “Specified Substance” under S.5 Diuretics and Masking Agents of the 2024 WADA Prohibited List.”

The Single Judge of the CAS ADD held a hearing with the parties at 22:30 (CET) on 28 July 2024 and issued his decision later the same day, at 23:55 (CET), confirming the provisional suspension imposed by the IOC on Ogunsemilore on July 27, 2024, and continuing through the duration of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.”