Nigerian athletes have clashed with their officials at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics over phone gifts from Samsung to athletes from each participating country.
Samsung, who is one of the sponsors of the Olympics, gifted Samsung S20+ 5G Olympics Games Athlete Edition, which costs over $1,000, to each athlete competing at the Olympics.
Reports said each athlete was required to go to Samsung office in Tokyo with his/her Olympics accreditation tag and collect the phone, but Team Nigeria officials collected the phones in bulk for all the athletes representing the country.
But the officials failed to give the 10 athletes disqualified by the Athletics Integrity Unit for failing to meet an anti-doping test on Wednesday.
The athletes had vowed to stage a protest if the gift phones were not given to them.
