Fellow Nairalanders, having been following the commonwealth games in India it has been interesting to see that team Nigeria have not done too badly in terms of medals won. However when you look at the medals table and see teams like Australia, England, Canada and even India the hosts winning twice or even thrice the medals Nigeria have won I began to wonder if Nigeria could have done better.

I saw that these countries won a lot of medals in sports which we in Nigeria wouldn't see as sports per se. The most notable "sports" with squillions of medals on offer were shooting and archery. In archery there were men and women team or individual  recurve and compound medals on offer while over different distances. In shooting you had men and women individual and team medals in pistol and small bore singles skeet, standard pistol and clay target.

I honestly have no idea what all these mean but I know that those countries mentioned above won loads of medals in these "sports" and Nigeria could have done the same if only we can harness our natural talents in these "sports". Everyday in Nigeria you read about armed robbers engaged in gun fights with police, kidnappers and militants in shoot outs.I am sure that some of these armed robbers, militants and policemen would be good shots and with the right equipment and training will do Nigeria proud. Also they would all be on the same team, police and armed robbers will divert their shooting talents to more positive uses and the problems of militancy, armed robbery and unlawful police killing will be solved chike na. 

On archery which is essentially a bow and arrows "sport" the boko haram insurgents can be world beaters. Imagine the havoc they wreak with their crude bows and arrows lol. I magine what they can do with proper space age bows and arrows in their hands. These guys could hit a moving target five miles away so competing with proper equipment and coaching will be a piece of cake abi. The problems of religious insurgency and riots will be solve pata pata.

Fellow Nairalanders let me know what una think and in which other sports do you think we have talent but have not been harnessed.

afrokarma:

Fellow Nairalanders, having been following the commonwealth games in India it has been interesting to see that team Nigeria have not done too badly in terms of medals won. However when you look at the medals table and see teams like Australia, England, Canada and even India the hosts winning twice or even thrice the medals Nigeria have won I began to wonder if Nigeria could have done better.

I saw that these countries won a lot of medals in sports which we in Nigeria wouldn't see as sports per se. The most notable "sports" with squillions of medals on offer were shooting and archery. In archery there were men and women team or individual  recurve and compound medals on offer while over different distances. In shooting you had men and women individual and team medals in pistol and small bore singles skeet, standard pistol and clay target.

I honestly have no idea what all these mean but I know that those countries mentioned above won loads of medals in these "sports" and Nigeria could have done the same if only we can harness our natural talents in these "sports". Everyday in Nigeria you read about armed robbers engaged in gun fights with police, kidnappers and militants in shoot outs.I am sure that some of these armed robbers, militants and policemen would be good shots and with the right equipment and training will do Nigeria proud. Also they would all be on the same team, police and armed robbers will divert their shooting talents to more positive uses and the problems of militancy, armed robbery and unlawful police killing will be solved chike na. 

On archery which is essentially a bow and arrows "sport" the boko haram insurgents can be world beaters. Imagine the havoc they wreak with their crude bows and arrows lol. I magine what they can do with proper space age bows and arrows in their hands. These guys could hit a moving target five miles away so competing with proper equipment and coaching will be a piece of cake abi. The problems of religious insurgency and riots will be solve pata pata.

Fellow Nairalanders let me know what una think and in which other sports do you think we have talent but have not been harnessed.

Professional sport is a lot more developed and complicated than what you wrote up there. If Taekwondo was in the Commonwealth Games we will get some more medals.



2010 Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010


Aquatics - 56
Archery - 8
Athletics - 52
Badminton - 6
Boxing - 10
Cycling - 18
Gymnastics - 20
Hockey - 2
Lawn bowls - 6
Netball - 1
Rugby sevens - 1
Shooting - 36
Squash - 5
Table tennis- 8
Tennis - 5
Weightlifting - 17
Wrestling - 21

Total Gold Medals -272