Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been handed a 10-year ban for doping violations. The 33-year-old has been handed five years for the presence and use of multiple prohibited substances and five ...

Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare was provisionally suspended for a doping violation on Saturday in Tokyo, according to the Associated Press. The news came just hours before Okagbare was set to run ...

TOKYO (AP) — Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare was provisionally suspended for doping Saturday, hours before the former world championships silver medalist was due to run in the semifinals of the ...

Blessing Okagbare, who won a silver medal for long jump at the 2008 Olympics, will no longer be allowed to compete in the Tokyo Games Nigerian sprinter and 2008 Olympics long jump silver medalist ...

The 33-year-old, who is also a sprinter, was expelled from the Tokyo Olympics last year before the women’s 100m semi-finals after testing positive for human growth hormone at an out-of-competition ...

NIGERIA’S prospect of winning a medal in the Women’s 100m at the 12th Africa Games, was thwarted after two-time Commonwealth champion, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor was disqualified in the semi-final ...

Although Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare has gone 10.79 seconds in the 100 meters, her coach thinks it’s time for the 25-year-old to stop sprinting and start focusing more on the long jump. As Olu Sule, ...

Iheanacho’s talents remind one of the glorious moment at the Hampden Park Stadium in Glasgow on Monday night when Nigeria’s speedster, Blessing Okagbare, ran a terrific race in the women’s 100 metres ...