Nigeria’s first and individual Olympic gold medallist, Chioma Ajunwa has been listed to give talks on the challenges posed by doping in track and field during the third leg of the AFN Golden League slated to begin today at the Sports Complex of the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos.
Ajunwa whose career was equally truncated by dope problems after jumping 8.12 metres to win the long jump gold medal for Nigeria at the Atlanta ’96 Games, is expected to lecture athletes on the danger posed by the taking of performance enhancing drugs.
Technical Director of the AFN, Sunday Bada, confirmed that Ajunwa was picked for the lecture because the serving police chief superintendent “ is in a better position to tell the athletes what dope is capable of doing to their careers.”
Bada, believes that the lecture is timely to stem the ugly trend of several athletes doping to achieve fame, adding that the federation became worried that there is need to stem the tide by several means among which is through lectures.
Meanwhile, the third leg of the AFN Golden League begins Friday with all-comers slated to hold today at the YABATECH Sports Complex.
Bada revealed that the idea of all-comers in this leg was to encourage athletes from the state who have been training with no competition to try their lucks at the League.
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