All eyes on injured Oghenebrume as Nigeria men’s 4x100m drawn in very strong heat

All eyes will be on the Nigerian men’s 4x100m team on Thursday to see if the injured Godson Oghenebrume will make a return or if he has been unjustly registered by Nigerian athletics officials at the expense of a fitter Seye Ogunlewe who was unjustly not included the 35-man team for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Nigerians had cried against the nepotism in the AFN after Ogunlewe, who fulfilled all conditions for selection by both World Athletics and the Nigerian federation, was not included in the team why two athletes who did not compete at the Nigerian Trials for the Games, were named in the team with one of the two clearly unfit to compete.

Despite obvious injury to Oghenebrume, the 21 year old was accredited for the Games and Nigerians are waiting to see if he has recovered and fit enough to compete or if tax payers money has been wasted.

Meanwhile, the depleted Nigerian 4x100m team has been drawn in a very tough that includes the USA complete with three individual 100m finalists, Noah Lyles, Fred Kerley and Kenny Bednarek; South Africa who also has Akani Simbine, a 100m finalist as well as semifinalists, Benjamin Richardson and Shaun Maswanganyi, who have all broken 10 seconds in the 100m.

The South Africans have done a 38.08 this year.

Also competing for the three automatic tickets for the final are Great Britain who holds a personal season’s best of 38.32, Japan (38.07 personal season’s best), Australia (38.31 personal season’s best) and the Netherlands (personal season’s best of 38.30).

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