Samuel Ogazi: Broken Jinx, Record Setting in Glasgow

Every sport has its defining barrier, a historic ceiling that athletes from a particular nation chase for generations but can never quite break. For Nigerian men’s athletics, that barrier was the 400-metre track at the Commonwealth Games. For nearly a century, legendary Nigerian quarter-milers had stepped onto the global stage, only to fall just short of the ultimate prize. But on a crisp, electric night in Scotland, a 20-year-old sensation from Kaduna did what no Nigerian man before him had ever accomplished. With a blinding burst of speed and unparalleled grit, Samuel Ogazi did more than just win a race, he rewrote the record books, inspired a nation, and asserted himself as the new king of the track, writes Kunle Adewale

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