Olaore loses in men’s 92kg
Nigeria’s African Games lightweight champion Cynthia Ogunsemilore has refuted the doping allegation by the International Testing Agency (ITA) which has provisionally suspended the boxer from taking part in the Paris 2024 Olympics.
ITA said Ogunsemilore tested positive for the banned diuretic furosemide in a sample taken on Friday last week but the southpaw boxer denied the allegations, and demanded another test to prove her innocence.
“This looks like a set up to tarnish my image and deny me a chance to win Olympic gold, I have never doped in my life, maybe they mistook my sample with somebody else’s but not mine,” a relaxed Cynthia said.
“They want to ruin my career, I’m still in the Games Village and tonight (Sunday) there’s a hearing during which I’ll explain to them I have not taken anything and they can test me again I prove them wrong.”
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Nigeria’s coach in Paris, Adura Olalehin who’s a light-heavyweight bronze medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, kept silence on the issue.
Meanwhile, Olaitan Olaore was defeated in the men’s 92kg Boxing Heavyweight Preliminaries at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
He lost to Kazakhstan’s Oralbay Aibek, who won the bout by 5-0 WP (Win on points).
Kazakhstan’s Oralbay drilled Olaore to qualify to the next round at the Boxing event in Paris.
Aibek won all three rounds, with all five judges ruling in his favour in all the rounds, scoring 30-26 points overall against Olaore.