Favour Ofili and Blessing Oborududu will be the cynosure of all eyes as Team Nigeria is favoured to win at least two medals today ( Tuesday 6th August) at the Paris 2024, Sport247 reports.
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By 8:30 pm Favour Ofili will be faced with history in the women’s 200m final as she will be attempting to become Nigeria’s first ever sprinter to win an Olympic gold medal.
She is ready for the task ahead and highly favoured to deliver a medal (of any colour) going by her exploits at the games so far.
Ofili ran a new season’s best of 22.05s to book her place in the final on Monday, coming second behind new 100m champion Julien Alfred in the first semi-final, making it two Season best in just 24 hours as she delivered 22.24s, to win her heat on Sunday.
The 22.05s is the third-fastest time in the semi-finals behind Julien Alfred 21.98s and Gabby Thomas 21.86s which place her in the bronze medal zone at least
The 21-year-old can aspire to go one step higher to become the first Nigeria gold medal winner in an individual track event at the Olympics or at least win a medal and break the 28 years wait for a medal in the 200 meter event at the Olympics after Mary Onyali won the Bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta USA .
Watch out for Favour Ofili in lane three later tonight as she battles for her place in history, hoping she finds favour and executes her race plan successfully at 8:40 pm.
Before then, Nigerians will be glued to their screens by 5:15 pm as Blessing Oborududu seeks to deliver the first Nigeria medal of the Paris 2024 Olympics in the 65 kg Freestyle Wrestling bonze medal fight.
Oborududu who Silver medal winner at the last Olympic, in Tokyo will be willing to make up for her inability to reach the final of the event this time after suffered a narrow 3-1 defeat to Kyrgyzstan’s Meerim Zhumanazarova in the semi-finals on Monday night.
The painful defeat ends her Paris Olympic gold dream but she is the favourite to deliver the bronze against North Korea’s Pak Sol Gum and have Olympic medal in her cabinet.
As Nigerians look forward to the ladies to deliver and put the Team Nigeria name on the Medals table, hope they find favour and Blessing to deliver as expected .
