Olympics: Good News For Team Nigeria As Ese Brume Qualifies For Final

It is good news for team Nigeria on Sunday as Ese Brume qualified for the final stage of the Long Jump event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Green White Green (GWG) recalls team Nigeria have suffered successive blows in the last few days starting from the disqualification of ten (10) athletes 10 athletes “because the minimum testing requirements under Rule 15 of the Anti-Doping Rules were not met by ‘Category A’ Federations”.

Likewise, Blessing Okagbare, was provisionally suspended from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games. While the men’s national basketball team, D’Tigers were crushed out of the competition.

Brume early Sunday morning leapt to a distance of 6.76m, 1cm more than the required mark to seal her place among the contestants that would be competing for medals in the final on Tuesday.

She had the fourth overall best Jump among the finalists; perhaps saving her best for the right moment.

Brume is Nigeria’s sole representative in the jumps in Tokyo since the disqualification of Ruth Usoro by the Athletics Integrity Unit.

Usoro had met the qualifying standards for both the Long and Tripple jump events but was denied a debut appearance at the Games.

On her part, Brume who was Nigeria’s only medalist at the last World Championship in Doha is rightly seen as one of the country’s brightest medal prospect in Tokyo.

Having broken the long-standing 7.12m record of Chioma Ajunwa in the build-up to the Olympic Games, expectations are high she could also deliver gold like the police officer did 25 years ago in Atlanta.

Brume is a World Championships Bronze medallist and All-Africa Games Gold medallist. She has won African Championships Gold medallist three times.

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