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Article: Nigerian women's 4x100m relay team out of Olympics
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 15, 2008
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Nigerian women's 4x100m relay team out of Olympics
LAGOS, July 15 (Xinhua) -- The Nigeria women's 4x100 meters relay
team will not compete at the Olympics, for the first time since 1992
Barcelona.
The relay team has been knocked off the list of top 16 qualifying
nations as the female 4x100 meters relay team dropped to 17th on
July 6.
The team needed to compete in selected European meets to boost
their rankings and stay on the top 16 list of nations for the relay
event. But the team had difficulty qualifying for events for
Beijing.
The sports ministry also lacked funds to take most of the events
and the relay teams could not go abroad to participate in ...