Amahala Chika Fell Into Shock

Nigeria's Commonwealth weighlifting gold medalist, Chika Amalaha, is reporetdly in shock following the declaration by the doping control unit of the Commonwealth Games that her blood sample tested positive to banned drugs.

 

Chika, who two months ago in Botswana won three gold at the African youth championship has been celebrated as a revelation and asset for Nigeria weightlifting following her record setting performance in the women 53 kilogramme class but her feat tend to an embrassement to the nation and Chika who is already beaming in joy for setting a new Commonwealth games records.

 

Contacts with her managers, indicated that the Amalaha has fallen into shock, refusing to eat as she is unable to comprehend what is going on around her as she has requested for a B Sample test which will  be available tomorrow.

 

Spokesman of the Nigerian Olympic Committee, Tony Ubani, said the Nigerian delegation, including the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Gbenga Elegbeleye, and President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, Sani Ndanusa, has called for calm, advising that the athlete should be given the benefit of the doubt until the result of the second test confirms the final truth.

 

If her sample B remain same, then there are indications are that she will be stripped of her gold medal, immediately and also expelled from the Commonwealth Games Village.