Okagbare storms Rio, enlivens Games Village

• Maurice Greene, Asumnu won’t make promises

Team Nigeria’s medal hopeful, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor has joined the rest of Team Nigerian athletes as her presence alone has brought sparks in the sprawling Olympic Village.

Blessing was seen in the Village with other athletes in her traditional toothpaste smile, looking trim and refreshingly beautiful as she hopes to carry the hopes of many Nigerians to make a podium appearance.

Okagbare would be gunning for medals in her traditional 100m, 200m, Long Jump and 4 x 100m women relay.

Meanwhile, Maurice Greene knows the terrain of the Olympics as much as any aspiring athlete in the world of track and field.

He is among the super star former athletes who are here guiding athletes to meet up with their Olympic dream. The former star who won four Olympic medals and was a five-time World champion said that anything is possible in athletics and as such would not predict on the fortunes of Team Nigeria.

“It is difficult for you to predict. Anything can happen in athletics. It is only when they hit the tracks that one can now predict. So let’s wait and see’’, the ambassador for IAAF and a TV personality said at the Games Village.

Gloria Asumnu agreed that it was difficult to make promises knowing that anything could happen. ‘’All I can say is that we are working hard to do well.’’