Blessing Okagbare’s manager has blamed the Athlete loss at the IAAF 100m Women final on the Athlete being forced to the rear end instead of the middle her semi final run deserved.
Okagbare manager is furious with the IAAF as he believes her semi final run of 10.89 proves that the athlete should have been drawn in lane four.
Blessing Okagbare
The manager, Paul Doyle said that Okagbare was also let down by her country, the Athletic Federation of Nigeria, whose technical director, Omatseye Nesiama did not protest the placement of its prime star.
“This is one of the problems we have when we don’t use merit but politics to pick who heads a department as technical as the technical committee,” said one of the Nigerian athletes who begged not to be named for the fear of being persecuted.
The athlete could not comprehend how a man who wasn’t an ex-athlete nor a coach could be made to head such a sensitive position.
“In this era of the sport going scientific and federations all over the world going for a sports scientist or an ex international with a little knowledge of sports heading such a committee, we chose to put a dilletante in charge,” the athlete further said and wondered why respected individuals such as Dr Ken Anugweje, a professor of sports science or professor Tunde Makanju as well as Falilat Ogunkoya, arguably Nigeria’s cleanest and on account of that most successful athlete, were doing when AFN president Solomon Ogba unilaterally named Nesiama as technical director.
“In this era of the sport going scientific and federations all over the world going for a sports scientist or an ex international with a little knowledge of sports heading such a committee, we chose to put a dilletante in charge,” the athlete further said and wondered why respected individuals such as Dr Ken Anugweje, a professor of sports science or professor Tunde Makanju as well as Falilat Ogunkoya, arguably Nigeria’s cleanest and on account of that most successful athlete, were doing when AFN president Solomon Ogba unilaterally named Nesiama as technical director.
They argued that Okagbare would have finished in a podium position if she had been drawn in either lane 3, 4 or 7.
Fraiser-Pryce won the 100 metre final while Okagbare came a distant 9th which surprised lots of critics.
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