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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Friday,July 16, 2004. Four Nigerians make British Olympics team By Uzor Odigbo Correspondent, Lagos   The cream of Britain’s Olympic athletics team, which includes four Nigerian athletes will fine tune preparations at the Norwich Union International in Birmingham next week. The Nigerians, which comprised  one male and three female athletes namely Philip Idowu (triple jump), Abi Oyepitan (100m) Joyce Maduaka (100m) Christine Ohuruogu will represent Britain at the Athens Olympics by virtue of  their being British citizens. The British team featuring a host of Olympic-bound athletes will take on the USA and select teams from Europe and the Commonwealth. Three Nigerians on the British Olympics team may have been regulars except for Ohuruogu who would be making her debut in the English team. The 400m female sensation was said to have merited her place in the team based on her recent exploits at the competition organised to select the British team for the world fiesta.   Another Nigerian not too well known back home was Oyepitan who had also shown blistering performance over the 100m and has been tipped to pair Maduaka for the relays. Maduaka who had represented the queen’s country at various games in the past will be making her last Olympic appearance and would probably retire to administer the sport as coach. The Nigerian born-Briton could not win a medal at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth games on account  of  injuries she cupped in the heats. The fast talking Briton says Nigeria remains a home. Also in the British team is Philip Idowu Jr. a triple jumper, the son of  a philanthropist Nathaniel Idowu. Idowu like Maduaka has been a regular face in the British athletics team in past games, but for Idowu, it has always been a near miss situation as he walks in  the shadows  of Jonathan Edwards  who currently holds both the Commonwealth  and World record in the event.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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