Former Nigerian sprinter and five time Olympian, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, says the minister of youth and sports development, Sunday Dare, commitment to the
development, Sunday Dare, commitment to the development of sports at the grassroots is yielding positive results as witnessed at the just concluded delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.
Onyali, who spoke in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP Sports in Tokyo, said 60 percent of Team Nigeria’s athletes to Tokyo Olympics were young athletes within the developmental age category that would probably go on to represent the country in the next three or four Olympics.
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