Nigeria failed to make it to the final 4x100m relays at Thursday’s ongoing 2024 Olympic Games.
\nThe men\u2019s 4\u00d7100 quartet of Favour Ashe, Kanyinsola Ajayi, Alaba Akintola, and Usheoritse Itsekiri finished 7th in heat 1.<\/p>\n
The quartet ran a season\u2019s best time of 38.20s.<\/p>\n
USA won the race in a time of 37.47s, while South Africa finished second with a time of 37.94s.
\nThe women\u2019s 4\u00d7100 team also failed to make it to the final.<\/p>\n
The quartet of Justina Eyakpobeyan, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma, and Tima Godbless finished 6th in heat 2.
\nThey ran a season\u2019s best time of 42.70s.<\/p>\n
Nigeria\u2019s Edose Ibadin missed out on a place in the semifinals of the men\u2019s 800m.
\nThe Nigerian record holder finished 7th in his Repechage heat with a time of 1:49.09, and won\u2019t progress to the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigeria failed to make it to the final 4x100m relays at Thursday’s ongoing 2024 Olympic Games. The men\u2019s 4\u00d7100 quartet of Favour Ashe, Kanyinsola Ajayi, Alaba Akintola, and Usheoritse Itsekiri finished 7th in heat 1. The quartet ran a season\u2019s best time of 38.20s. USA won the race in a time of 37.47s, while South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1136],"class_list":["post-42512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-paris-olympics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42514,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42512\/revisions\/42514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}