Paralympic gold medalist, Lauretta Onye, who specialises in the F-40 shot put, is disappointed after her two gold medals at the last edition of the 2022 National Sports Festival in Asaba, Delta State were disqualified.
The 2015 World Championships gold medallist said she was unhappy to have returned from the 21st sports festival without medals after everything she put in to ensure victory.
“We competed but the event was cancelled because we were not up to the number of states they needed. I could have won two gold medals but I came back from the festival empty-handed,” Onye, who should have represented Team Delta, told“They needed at least five states, but only three states Lagos, Rivers and Delta were registered. Among the three states that competed, I came first in the two events, even if we had 36 states, I would still have come first.
She added that the cancellation of Paralympic sports at Delta 2022 discouraged many of her colleagues, who she claimed, joined the political campaign of Nigerian politicians.
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