Crew Nigeria’s Medal Hopes Dimmed, Bow Out Of 10 Occasions

Apart from the ladies basketball crew, D’Tigress, who’ve certified for his or her first-ever quarterfinal on the Olympic Video games after an exciting 79-70 win over Canada of their last group B match on Sunday, Crew Nigeria’s wobbly performances on the ongoing Paris Video games persists with the nation’s athletes crashing out of 10 occasions they entered for.

The faltering performances of Nigeria’s contingent in Paris opposite to pre-Video games expectations, like earlier Olympics, is an indictment of the nation’s persistently inept sports activities administration because it was proof within the reckless exclusion of the nation’s nationwide champion and solely medal hopeful, Favour Ofili, from the ladies’s 100m race.

Because it stands, there’s big doubt over Crew Nigeria’s probabilities of successful not less than a medal on the ongoing video games and the information will not be far-fetched because the Crew have been eradicated from 10 occasions on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games both after painful losses of its athletes or for administrative lapses.

1. Boxing – Males/Ladies: Cynthia Ogunsemilore was provisionally suspended after testing optimistic for a banned substance forward of her opening combat.

Nigerian champion, Olaitan Olaore was crushed 5-0 by Kazakhstan’s Oralbay Aibek in his opening combat on the sport, dashed Nigeria’s hope for a medal in boxing.

2. Desk Tennis – Males/Ladies’s Singles: Nigeria’ duo of Aruna Quadri and Omotayo Olajide misplaced their opening match on the Paris Video games 4-3 and 4-1 respectively to bid the Sport goodbye.

Within the Ladies’s Desk Tennis Singles class Offiong Edem and Fatimo Bello misplaced 4-0 respectively and are out of the competition in Paris.

3. Badminton: Crew Nigeria’s captain and sole consultant in males’s single, Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori crashed out after dropping his first and second group match respectively.

4. Soccer – Ladies: The Tremendous Falcons ended their marketing campaign on the Paris Video games with out a single level after dropping all their three matches in group C to Brazil 1-0, Spain 1-0 and Japan 3-1 respectively.

5. Swimming Males/Ladies: Tobi Sijuade didn’t advance to the following spherical of the Males’s 50m Freestyle after ending in third place with 23.34s which wasn’t sufficient for him to progress to the semifinals.

Within the ladies’s 50m swimming freestyle last, Adaku Nwandu, a 16-year-old Beijing primarily based Nigerian swimmer got here 2nd in her warmth with 26.62secs, however it wasn’t one of many 16 quickest occasions that made the ultimate.

6. Athletics – Males/Ladies’s 100m: Godson Oghenebrume was not within the line up for the Males’s 100m heats although he certified for the 100m. Whereas Favour Ofili was dominated out of the ladies’s 100m as a result of both Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) or Nigeria Olympic Committee didn’t register her identify regardless of being certified for the occasion.

Godbless crashed out of the ladies’s 100m after ending sixth in her Warmth in a time of 11.33 seconds, whereas Rosemary Chukwuma completed in eighth place within the 2nd ladies’s 100m semifinal.

7. Excessive Leap – Ladies: Temitope Adeshina didn’t make the ultimate of the ladies’s excessive soar occasion after ending ninth in Group B with a soar of 1.88m

8. Athletics – Combined 4X400m: The quartet of Samuel Ogazi, Ella Onojuvwevwo, Ifeanyi Ojeli and Persistence Okon-George completed 4th in Warmth 2 of the Combined 4X400m relays in a time of three:11.99, although setting a brand new nationwide document, and didn’t make the ultimate.

9. Discus – Ladies: The trio of Ashley Anumba, Chioma Onyekwere and Obiageri Amaechi exited the Paris Video games after the primary spherical in ladies’s Discus.

10. Shot Put – Males: Three African champion Chukwuebuka Enekwechi completed fifth within the males’s shot put last with a throw of 21.42m and didn’t make it to the rostrum.

LEADERSHIP Sports activities reviews that the final time Nigeria had its nationwide anthem performed in an Olympic enviornment, with its athlete(s) standing atop the gold medal podium, was in Atlanta 1996 when Chioma Ajunwa received the Ladies’s lengthy soar occasion and the U23 males’s soccer crew pulled off the identical feat. At Sydney in 2000, Nigeria’s 4×400 metre relay crew initially completed second, however that place was revised upwards following a doping investigation that stripped the successful Crew USA of its gold medal. These account for all of Nigeria’s gold medals since athletes started representing the nation on the Olympics in 1952, which is apt when its complete Olympics medal haul presently stands at 27.