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Team Nigeria at Paris Olympics opening ceremonyWithout any modicum of doubt, Nigeria’s outing at the 2024 Paris Olympics which ended on Sunday was a disaster waiting to happen. The minister of sports John Owan Enoh has duly apologised to us for this untenable and unacceptable performance.
So where was the optimism about “doing well” coming from? It’s not the minister’s duty to do magic one year to an event smaller countries had been drilling and training their athletes for ten years before now. While we boast of 200 million citizens, we watched St Lucia, a country of 180,000 people, win the female 400 metres gold, small Botswana in the southern part of Africa won the male 200 metres gold and the male 4×400 metres relay silver.
The same thing happened with Mobil Oil who bankrolled annual competitions over so many years and we all looked forward to selection trials that featured Nigerian student-athletes from the world standard Azusa Pacific University and Santa Monica Track Club coming to face serious duels with the Nigerian-based stars for spots on the flight to the Olympics.
The National Olympic Committee must be revamped through new elections into the executive, and performance-driven persons put in charge. The government must be definite and intentional in funding scholarships to designated universities of sports in the United States, China and Cuba for student youth games products.
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