Nigerian officers have informed the BBC they’re making an attempt to work out how Favour Ofili’s identify was left off the entry checklist for the ladies’s 100m at Paris 2024.
The 21-year-old sprinter was anticipating to compete in three occasions at her first Olympics: the 100m, 200m and ladies’s 4x100m relay.
However Ofili was informed that she had not been registered for the 100m earlier than Friday’s heats.
She subsequently shared a blistering assertion on social media saying: “I’ve labored for 4 years to earn this chance. For what?”
There may be confusion as to what occurred, with each Nigerian officers and governing physique World Athletics denying accountability.
“We try to get to the basis of it, as a result of she certified in our trials and the consequence was despatched to World Athletics,” Solomon Ogba, a vp of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, informed BBC Sport Africa in Paris.
“We simply confirmed that. Usually World Athletics will ship [entries] for Paris 2024. That’s the place the confusion is.”
Nonetheless, World Athletics, the organisation accountable for drawing up begin lists, has confirmed to BBC Sport Africa that Ofili was solely entered in two occasions – the 200m and the ladies’s 4x100m relay.
Nigeria’s sports activities minister, senator John Owan Enoh, mentioned the saga will probably be investigated and there will probably be “thorough sanctions” for these discovered culpable for the oversight.