THE 400m women final of the just ended Mobil/NNPC Commonwealth Trials brought tears into my eyes. Watching Chief Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku limp painfully the rest of the way, ending up behind the pack, made me cry.
The race brought memories of a gallant achiever who through dint of hardwork, and peseverance entered her name in the history books as Africa record holder and one of the best in the World. 53. 76 secs is her time and if you ask me, it is one of the worse time she has recorded in many years. Years of toiling and running had reduced the Ogun State quartermiler to nothing.
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