The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, concluded 48 hours ago, was a small leap for gallant Nigerian athletes; but a giant flop in team performance and Nigeria’s representation at the global sports’ fiesta.
The most populous Black Country in the world won two consolatory medals, certainly not enough to assuage the administrative fiasco that trailed build-up to the games and disillusioned the team in-tournament with attendant shame on the country. Besides the complete overhaul and reform now overdue in sports, all those complicit in the disastrous outing should not go unpunished.
Olympics definitely are not a place for the fruitless improvisation of athletic roles that Nigeria consequently resorted to. It was a huge relief for the Team when Ese Brume won bronze medal, and Blessing Oborududu afterwards doubled the tally with silver in the freestyle wrestling. Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, in a veiled attempt to rationalise the debacle, said the team had an “impressive outing,” better than previous editions. He reminded Nigerians that the Olympics are highly competitive but “we have learnt our lessons for better outing at the next Olympics.
To change the narrative, elected public-officeholders and politicians need to accord sport and its practitioners their deserving respect. There is no doubt that youth and sports’ development is symptomatic of the disarticulated state of the nation. However, performances of individual sportsmen and women should be an inspiration for other walks of life.
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