By Tony Ubani in India

DISTRAUGHT Damola Osayomi is yet to come to terms with her testing positive to methylhexaneamine after winning the 100 m gold.

Sally Pearson, an Australian athlete who originally won the gold was disqualified after a protest was launched against her for a false start. Osayomi who won the silver was upgraded to gold but fate played out on her when she tested positive.

The lass who confessed her ignorance to the drug has been stripped of the gold and decamped from the Games Village. She is still in tears but her refusal to eat or drink anything since she tested positive has sent warning signals to Team Nigeria. Many who know her too well have been vouching for her innocence. “She has been on hunger strike.

Matters are getting worse because we are afraid for her”, one of the officials of Team Nigeria said. Athletics Federation of Nigeria President, Chief Solomon Ogba has been most helpful telling her to put herself together. “She has our sympathy. She is young and can still bring herself back. We are sending what she took for further laboratory tests. The IAAF will act from there and she might come back sooner than expected”, Ogba said.

Dr Akin Amao, Anti Doping Officer also clarified that the IAAF will work with the AFN before determining the severity of her punishment.  “The good thing is that it is not a steroid. It is a stimulant. It makes it lighter”, he said.