Nigeria: Another Olympics Not to Remember

24 August 2016

Now the Rio Olympics is over it may be time to take stock of Nigeria's participation at the games. After what were clearly shoddy preparations or in fact non-preparation for the games, the result of our participation is now out for all to see. A bronze medal in football couldn't possibly be all we spent the last four years preceding the games preparing for. It was clear that nothing good could or would come out of Rio for Nigeria in the light of how we programmed ourselves to fail.

Early confirmation of this came after our athletes to the games showed up at the opening ceremony in track suits. This happened in spite of the fact that Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari, were deceived into believing that a special outfit had been commissioned for the games. The 419 people at the Sports Ministry even got some of the athletes to pose for photographs with the President in the special outfit. In the end it was a no-show in Rio. Indeed, we hear the outfits arrived when the games were almost over and the athletes they were meant for, let down by their country, had mostly left Rio to lick the wound of defeat.

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