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There is an adage that says 'when you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.’ With less than two months to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil, Team Nigeria is anything but ready to participate with any prospect of glory in the biggest sporting event in the world, leaving Nigerians concerned and disenchanted.

One would have expected there to be a change in attitude and approach after the embarrassingly empty-handed outing at the London 2012 Olympics. The upcoming Rio Olympics promises to be worse, with the team potentially only coming home with the Zika virus.

While other countries are intensifying, fine-tuning and approaching the final stages of preparation, Team Nigeria is struggling to get funds released for training and preparation, resulting in some athletes seeking out sponsors or exhausting their hard-earned financial resources.

The budgetary hullabaloo has not helped matters, with the budget only released a few weeks ago, leaving the athletes running helter-skelter for a release of funds to at least get a modest six-week preparation.

Moreover, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) added another twist to the shoddy and disappointing preparation saga with the revelation that the sports ministry in Abuja has allegedly failed to release money to pay visa fees for Nigerian athletes expected to jet out to Durban, South Africa, for the African Senior Athletics Championship late next week.

Several appeals by former and veteran Olympians have fallen on deaf ears. The former African queen of the track Mary Onyali raised her fears and anxiety over the nation’s medal prospects in Brazil, due to a lack of planning and preparation, finding solace in prayer instead.

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