Team Nigeria’s hope of getting to the podium in both men’s and women’s 4x100m relay teams was dashed, yesterday, as they crashed out in their semifinal races at Stade de France.
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The country failed to make it to the final at the Tokyo Olympics, and will not be there again this time around after the women’s teams failed yesterday, making it the second straight Olympics Nigeria will not be presenting a team in the final of the women’s 4x100m. Also yesterday, Nigeria’s men’s 4x100m relay team failed to advance to the final for the fifth straight Olympics after the quartet of Favour Ashe, Kanyinsola Ajayi, Alaba Akintola, and Itshekiri ran 38.20, a personal season’s best to place seventh in their semifinal heat, and also seventh in the overall classification in terms of the time they ran.
South Africa, 2:59.76, and Belgium, 2:59.84, are the two nations who have broken three minutes this year with the South Africans parading three athletes who have broken 45 seconds this year and another just outside 44 seconds, while the Belgians, like Nigeria, have two athletes who have ran inside 45 seconds.
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