By Enefiok Udo-Obong The Games are at the half way point but it seems the Nigerian Sports fans have had a full dose of events. It has been story after story as each day brought a new point of discu…
The Games are at the half way point but it seems the Nigerian Sports fans have had a full dose of events. It has been story after story as each day brought a new point of discussion for the Nigerian team. From the opening ceremony, where observers complained of the non-uniformity of masks in the Nigerian team to the less significant ceremonial outfits worn by the athletes, the team lacked colour and our usual dab of rich cultural expressions, an observer complained.
Due to its high cases of doping violations amongst their athletes, Nigeria had been placed along with eight other countries as a ‘Category A’ country in athletics. The consequence of which was that all our athletes expected to take part in the Olympic Games had to have had at least three Out-of-Competitions tests, spaced at least within three months apart. This was not done.
While the counter accusations are traded on whose fault it is between the lack of funding and action of the ministry and the negligence and intentional sabotage by the rogue federation president, the AFN through its Secretary General, Adeniyi Beyioku was quick to send a statement to educate Nigerians that this was an administrative blunder and this error was followed with a knee-jerk reaction to appoint Prof Ken Anugweje as the head of the Medical and Anti-Doping Commission of the Federation.
Disappointments had started with table –tennis. While not much was expected from Funke Oshonaike and her feat of 7 consecutive Games appearance was commendable, everyone had hoped her experience will enable her win a couple of matches. But the news from the ping pong table was that our top player and World Number 21, Aruna Quadri who was expected to at least equal or go better than his laudable quarter final placing in Rio four years earlier, lost to a player almost ranked 40 places below him.
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