Nigeria’s good para powerlifting Commonwealth Games report has come to an finish with two of their athletes disqualified for turning up late for an occasion received by England’s Zoe Newson.
Tokyo Paralympic champion Latifat Tijani and Onyinyechi Mark had been among the many favourites to win girls’s light-weight gold at Birmingham 2022.
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The pair had been disqualified after arriving 25 minutes late for the appointed equipment test time, though the Nigeria Commonwealth Games Federation protested in opposition to the choice in saying they had been unaware of the time agreed at a technical assembly in August.
A Birmingham 2022 assertion learn: “Two athletes from the Nigeria team were disqualified due to non compliance to Technical Rules 17.1.4 ‘athletes does not present out to the kit check in the scheduled time and/or with a form of identification, they will be disqualified (DSQ)‘.
“The two athletes were present at 2.10pm, 25 minutes late from the scheduled kit check time 1.45pm.”
Nigeria press attache Oluwatoyin Ibitoye mentioned Tijani and Mark had arrived on the NEC venue at 1.55pm – 65 minutes forward of the scheduled 3pm begin time and 5 minutes earlier than what they felt was the cut-off level.
Ibitoye mentioned: “The Federation has appealed because we feel the athletes came in on time.
“We haven’t seen any messages that we should be here at 1.45pm and on that basis we are making a protest.
“The contest has been won and lost, but it’s important for us to put things on record so next time there has to be better information.
“These sort of issues should be discussed at the technical meeting where everybody is present.”
Advised that Nigeria employees had been certainly current on the technical assembly on August 1 when check-in timings had been agreed, Ibitoye replied: “The officials who went there say they were not told about 1.45.
“You have to trust your own people when they tell you this, and this is not the first time. If they are not getting it right there must be disconnect somewhere.
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“We will learn from this and maybe the next athletes will be here an hour or two before the event.
“The opportunity has gone for these athletes and, of course, there were tears because of the hours of preparation and training and then this (happens) on technical grounds.”
Newson and English teammate Olivia Broome took benefit of the Nigerians’ absence to fill the highest two podium spots, with Kenya’s Hellen Kariuki taking bronze.
Nigeria had loved gold medal para powerlifting clear sweeps at Glasgow 2014 and Gold Coast 2018 after the game was categorised individually from weightlifting.
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