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There is little or nothing to celebrate for some Nigerian athletes who were at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after their dreams of performing at the World's biggest sports games tumbled.

There is little or nothing to celebrate for some Nigerian athletes who were at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after their dreams of performing at the World’s biggest sports games tumbled.Nigerian athletes are protesting local authorities’ “incompetence” during preparations for the Tokyo Olympics.

“I have said it before and I will say it again. If you do not know the sport, not passionate about it/us , then you have no business there as an administrator,” Okagbare said while reacting to the decision of the Athletics Integrity Unit , an independent body created by World Athletics. “Athletes were been short paid and nobody should complain,” Aruna said in one of the Instagram posts.

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