Semenya Says She is Supernatural, Targets Olympic 200m
Tokunbo Orimobi LP will be looking forward to upstaging DOA Law//Bloomfield this afternoon as Group B leaders when Matchday 4 fixtures of the 2020 BOA Lawyers’FootballTournament hold at the AstroTurf 2000 facilities in Ikoyi, Lagos.
OrimobiareonfourpointsbehindleadersDOA/ Bloomfield with six points from two matches. But Orimobi whose fortunes took an upward swing following Ejiro Odivbri’s hat trick in their 3-1 defeat of ALP/SOOB last weekend, will be looking forward to consolidating when they face Pinheiro.
Odivbri is the first player to score hat trick in this 2020 edition of the tournament named after late Bankole Olumide Aluko, a partner in the law firm of Aluko & Oyebode who died 18 years ago.
Similar scenario is expected to play out in Group D where leaders, SPA Ajibode/Niccom LLP Will also hope to maintain lead.OAKE Legal is aiming to leapfrog the SPA Ajibode as the are both tied on six points but separated by goals difference.
SPA Ajibode/ Niccom LLP have a date with Olaniwun Ajayi in this Matchday 4 fixture while OAKE Legal who lost 0-3 to to the leaders have the weekend off to strategize on how to return to winning ways. Other fixtures include; Advocaat versus AELEX while BA Law / Probitas Partners are paired against OANDO/AXXELA Legal.
Champions Falana & Falana who have just one pointfromapossiblesixandhavebeenlanguishing in the fourth position of Group C will be aiming to pick their first maximum points of the season when they play UUBO/Ajumogobia & Okeke this afternoon.
Two-time Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya says she is“supernatural”as she confidently targets the 200m at Tokyo 2020. The 29-year-old cannot compete in events between 400m and a mile without taking testosterone-reducing drugs after a World Athletics rule change.
South African Semenya ran 200m in 23.49 seconds - 0.69secs outside the Olympic qualifying time - at an event in Pretoria on Friday.“I call myself supernatural,”she said.
The three-time world 800m champion, who spoke of her decision to switch to the 200m in an InstagrampostonFriday,mustbringhertimedown to 22.80secs before June 29 to qualify for the South African Olympic team.“We are chopping the times and I call myself supernatural. I can do anything I want,”she added.“I always challenge myself.This was not an easy decision to make.
“I am used to running two laps and then you come and run half a lap.You have to adjust, which is not easy, but anything is possible.”
If Semenya qualifies for the Olympics - which begin on July 24 - she would be set to compete against Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith, who won 200m gold at the 2019World Championships.
Semenya, who won Olympic gold in the 800m in 2012 and 2016, missed the chance to defend her world 800m title in Doha last year, having failed in her bid to prevent the governing body’s rule change.
World Athletics argued female athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - such as Semenya - have“a competitive advantage”. In February, Semenya competed in her first track meeting since last June with victory in the 300m in Johannesburg, winning her race in a national record of 36.78secs.