Wow! Blessing Okagbare Beats Usain Bolt To Guinness World Record

27 years old Nigerian sprinter,Blessing Okagbare has beaten record breaking star and world fastest man,Usain Bolt to claim the Guinness World Book of Record prize for most IAAF Diamond League appearance in 2015.

“Multi-discipline athlete, Blessing Okagbare from Nigeria participated at 38 Diamond league events between July 3, 2010 and September 5, 2014. Okagbare's specialties are the 100m and 200m sprint and long jump'' the book said 

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Blessing Okagbare Banned From Participating at Rio 2016 Olympics(Report)

 Nigerian sprinter and Commonwealth queen of tracks, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, has been banned by the National Sports Commission (NSC) and the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), following her appearance at the Zurich Diamond League on Thursday, a few days after she failed to run for Nigeria in the 200m event at the just concluded IAAF World Championship in Beijing, China.

Guardian reports that Okagbare was Team Nigeria’s medal hope at the IAAF Championship in Beijing but she fumbled in the 100m final, finishing last, and also failed to show up for the 200m event four days later, despite appearing in the warm up area. She claimed injury and while some Nigerians were yet to come to terms on what transpired in Beijing, there was a shocker a few days ago, when Okagbare announced she will not be representing Team Nigeria for the 11th All Africa Games in Congo, an action which AFN and NSC finds unpatriotic.

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Blessing Okagbare wins 200m to seal sprint double

Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare is the queen of sprint at Glasgow 2014 after she completed a sprint double by winning the 100m and now the women's 200m ahead of English duo Jodie Williams and Bianca Williams.Even though she didn't run her personal best, she clearly outran her competitors. It feels good to be on the winning side,,am so proud of her right now.

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