Crew Nigeria’s run of losses on the ongoing 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris continued yesterday with boxer Olaitan Olaore crashing out of the boys’s 92kg heavyweight occasion.
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) experiences that Olaore misplaced 0-5 to Kazakhstan’s Oralbay Aibek so as to add to his crew’s distress which had begun on Wednesday in Bordeaux following Tremendous Falcons 0-1 defeat to Brazil in girls’s soccer match.
Aibek was actually in charge of the spherical of 16 bout on the North Paris Enviornment, profitable all three rounds on all of the 5 judges’ playing cards.
Olaore joins the Crew Nigeria which sidelines Cynthia Ogunsemilore, who was disqualified after failing a doping take a look at, and Dolapo Omole who was dominated out as a result of damage.
Nigeria’s prime desk tennis gamers, Quadri Aruna and Olajide Omotayo, have additionally been eradicated from the boys’s singles occasion after shedding their opening matches.
Aruna, who was competing in his fourth Olympic Video games, confronted a tricky match towards Romania’s Eduard Ionescu within the spherical of 64. Regardless of a robust begin, profitable the primary three units 11-8, 11-9, and 11-6, Aruna in the end misplaced 4-3. Ionescu made a exceptional comeback, taking the following 4 units 11-8, 12-10, 11-9, and 13-11 to safe victory.
This marks the second assembly between Aruna and Ionescu, with their first encounter on the 2024 European Champions League in March ending in a win for the Romanian teenager.
In the same destiny, Omotayo was defeated within the spherical of 64 by Iran’s Noshad Alamiyan, shedding 4-1.
Omotayo gained the primary set 11-6 however then misplaced the following 4 units 11-5, 11-4, 12-10, and 11-8. This marks Omotayo’s second consecutive early exit, having additionally been eradicated on the identical stage within the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
With these losses, Nigeria’s hopes for a podium end within the males’s desk tennis occasion on the Paris Olympic Video games have been dashed.
