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Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare is out of the Olympics 100m final.
Blessing placed 3rd in her semifinal heat and her time of 11.09 was not good enough to get her in as one of the fastest losers.
Shelly An Fraser, the defending champion ran 10.88 seconds to win her heat and set to set a record as the only woman to win the 100m in three consecutive Olympic Games.
She won in Beijing at age 16 and won again in London 2012.
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