Team Nigeria’s efficiency on the ongoing Paris Olympics continues to disappoint, with athletes bowing out of 10 events.
The one vivid spot has been the ladies’s basketball workforce, D’Tigress, who secured their first-ever quarterfinal berth after a 79-70 victory over Canada of their closing group B match on Sunday.
The Nigerian contingent’s struggles in Paris exposes the lingering points with the nation’s sports activities administration.
The exclusion of Favour Ofili, a nationwide champion and medal hopeful, from the ladies’s 100m race has been a speaking level.
At the moment, Staff Nigeria’s possibilities of securing a medal look bleak, as confirmed the Management.
That is evident from the athletes’ early eliminations and administrative mishaps which have plagued the workforce.
In boxing, Nigerian champion Olaitan Olaore misplaced 5-0 to Kazakhstan’s Oralbay Aibek in his opening battle, ending Nigeria’s hopes within the sport.
The ladies’s desk tennis singles class noticed Offiong Edem and Fatimo Bello each dropping 4-0, exiting the competitors early.
Equally, within the ladies’s 50m freestyle swimming, 16-year-old Adaku Nwandu completed second in her warmth with a time of 26.62 seconds however did not make the ultimate as her time was not among the many 16 quickest.
In athletics, Godbless completed sixth in her warmth of the ladies’s 100m with a time of 11.33 seconds, whereas Rosemary Chukwuma got here eighth within the second ladies’s 100m semifinal, each failing to advance additional.
With these setbacks, Staff Nigeria faces a tricky problem forward as they purpose to salvage their marketing campaign in Paris.
