The International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF has banned a Nigerian athlete Tosin Adeloye for testing positive to drugs.
Consequently, the Nigerian 4x400m women’s relay team of which Adeloye is a member has been banned from participating in the 2016 Olympic Games holding in Rio, Brazil, next month.
The IAAF said that the female team was banned because one of them, Tosin Adeloye tested positive to drugs during the Confederation of African Athletics, CAA Super Grand Prix/Warri Relays in Warri, Delta State on July 24th last year.
Adeloye was been banned for eight years by the IAAF and all her results from both individual and joint events will be ignored.
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