To say that Nigeria’s performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was a complete disaster is putting it mildly. This is one Olympics that many Nigerians are
willing to erase from their memory. Not because the athletes were not ready to compete but because the sports administrators betrayed an abysmal lack of seriousness that rubbed off negatively on the morale of the whole team.
This newspaper is appalled that everything went wrong on Nigeria’s road to Tokyo. First, PUMA had entered into a sponsorship deal with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria in July 2019, in Doha. The deal was reportedly worth about N1 billion [$2.76m]. Among other highlighted benefits in the contract was supplying apparel to all age categories to Nigeria’s Athletics team for four years at no cost.
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