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Ese Brume out of 2018 Commonwealth Games

 

Defending champion in the long jump of the Commonwealth Games, Ese Brume will not be able to defend her title at the GoldCoast edition of the games as her name was copiously missing from the 37 athletes picked by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) for the multi-sports fiesta.

Aside from not attending the national trials held in Abuja last week, Ese Brume has not been competing regularly in recent times to ascertain whether she meets the standard set by AFN.

Disclosing this to NationSport Monday, AFN Technical Director, Sunday Adeleye said it is unfortunate that Ese Brume will not be part of the team to Gold Coast, Australia just as the selected athletes began closed camping in Abuja in readiness for the final phase of camping in Australia.

“I want to let you know that we are relying on merit to select athletes and we also monitored some of the foreign-based athletes to ascertain whether they meet our standard which was even higher than the competition standard. We want to ensure we give every athlete equal opportunity to make the team.

For Ese Brume, she failed to come for the national trials and she has not been competing in recent time for us to ascertain her jump. In view of this, she is not going to be part of the team to the Commonwealth Games,” Adeleye said.

Also, Nigeria’s fastest man, Oluseye Ogunlewe is also missing from the list and Adeleye said: “Ogunlewe was at the national trial in Abuja last week, and he ran two laps, which was below the three laps every athletes that competed did and for this, he failed to make the list for the games.”

Adeleye, however, said Commonwealth Games 100 and 200 champions, Blessing Okagbare will be part of the team.

For the games, the technical director said 37 athletes made up of 20 female and 17 male would represent Nigeria in the track and field events of the games while Nigeria will also be debuting in walk race.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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