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Shocking! Team Nigeria Doctor Exposes Blessing Okagbare's Secret

Posted by Odinaka on Mon 14th Sep, 2015 - tori.ng

A new twist to the injury story of Blessing Okagbare and the Athlet�ics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) for the sprinter's failure to show up for the 200m women's event in Beijing 2015 has developed, with the Medical director insisting that there was no report of injury on the ath�lete.

Blessing Okagbare
 
Speaking in Congo, venue of the on-going 11th Africa Games, the di­rector of Medical Depart­ment, National Sports Commission (NSC) Dr. Abubakar Mu’azu, has disclosed that the com­mission did not receive any report on Blessing Okagbare’s injury as she claimed, insist­ing that there was no re­port of injury on the ath­lete in the first place.

It can be recalled that Blessing Okagbare allegedly told the Athlet­ics Federation of Nige­ria (AFN) that it was because of her injury that made her not to show up for the 200m women’s event - the IAAF Athlet­ics World Championship held recently in Beijing.

The former Su­per Eagles’ team doctor,  said Okagbare’s with­drawal from 200m race at the World Athletic Cham­pionship was a surprise to the commission and no report of her injury had been received.

"If she’s here to compete in the relay event, that’s her choice. But all I can tell you is that she has no injury",
Muzua stated.


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