Sprinter, Gloria Asumnu ripped into coaches of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria whom she blamed for the country’s ouster from the women 4x100m of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China.

The team failed to clinch a berth in the final of the event won by Jamaica with 40.07 a new championships record. The USA was second with 40.68 seconds season’s best,

while Trinidad and Tobago won bronze with 42.03. But Nigeria’s team: Asumnu, Stephanie Kalu, Deborah Odeyemi and Cecilia Francis had a bad day on the track, they finished 43.89 the lowest time in the contest, and placed last in their heats.

Asumnu, revealed her frustration claiming that the coaches did not come up with the right strategy.

“ I am utterly disappointed. Not so much in our performance, but how team officials continue to fail us over and over.

“Going into this 4×100 the team they put out there did not work with each other. Even our relay coach up until this meet was Maurice Greene but for whatever reasons upon arriving here he was no longer our coach.

“To arrive on race day to the track and have a coach tell you what you’ve known all along and then give you new leg assignments etc goes to show how unprepared we were as a nation. The embarrassment on a world stage is too much and disheartening,” Asumnu lamented on her social media platform.

Interesting, Blessing Okagbare who officials boasted would be back for the relays after her no show in the 200m, did not dress up for the event and questions are being asked, on the rationale behind   her inclusion to the world championships, when officials knew she was not fit.