adecz:




Na wah for All this your statistics wey
no include the 1984 Olympics where
we won two medals.

It still proves my point anyways.

Peter Konyegwachie was cheated
out of the gold in favor of a US boxer
who couldn't believe he was named
the winner of the match.

I know that by the way. But that's irrelevant. We don't have the setup to consistently do well in olympic boxing or boxing in general

szczescie:
Shame suppose catch Una

Africans and Nigerians in particular are shameless

Nearly cannot kill a bird

Nigeria at Tokyo Olympics 0-0-0

Bermuda island at Tokyo Olympics 1-0-1

Bermuda a tiny poor island nation sent only 2 athletes to Tokyo Olympics

They won 1 Gold, 1 bronze

You with your shameless 200million people yet just less than 30 reps at the Olympics still nothing to show for it, even one bronze you haven't seen its noise you are good at making, shame suppose to make you keep quiet but no shame so you keep making noise anyhow.

People like you will have kids and compare them with others if others are doing better.

specialmati:
they tried although they should have done better

According to the saying in Nigeria,"better soup, na money killam." To produce high performing athletes, you have to put in the resources, time and effort.

fergie0o1:


SuperSport

That was Nigeria’s closest shot to a medal so far in #Tokyo2020. She finished 4th.

Nigeria's medal is in Ese Brume ... Mark my words

Beancounter94:


So when we also did not perform well in 2012, and many times before, was Buhari President of Nigeria, and Mazi Kanu in detention then?

You Nigerians should focus on why we don't do consistently well in sports instead of blaming Buhari today, GEJ yesterday, the millitary back in the day.

We need to deal with the root cause.

ignis:


We need to deal with the root cause.

Which is

1.Lack of talent, secondary to lack of interest

2.Lack of funding...whether from government, private or the taxpayer.

3.Lack of expertise...when there is no interest, there is no expertise

4.Lack of a structured competition similar to the NCAA and high school competitions in the USA.

modified

All that you are saying..they said it back in the 1980's, 1990's 2000's and even in 2012 when we came back with nothing. Because we cried about the problem and did nothing about the solution

redsun:


According to the saying in Nigeria,"better soup, na money killam." To produce high performing athletes, you have to put in the resources, time and effort.

you are right

Nigerian government doesn’t encourage the youths to get involved in sport. This is the reason a country with population of over 200 million people can’t win shit in Olympic.

How do you expect youths to involve in all these sports with empty stomach

Ayomi90:
You are good, no doubt about that, but you are doing it for a cursed nation, a terrorist country. So, don't expect victory.

Anyone who tagged Nigeria a CURSED can NEVER be BLESSED in that Nation.

Litmus:


Exactly. After two weeks, everything is forgotten. This happens because no one takes clear charge, sets goals and expects to be held responsible for success or failure. Right now we all have just vague notions of who or what to hold accountable. Is it the sports minister? is there a sports minister? Is it the president? Is there a president? Are states ministers responsible? home athletes? Or athletes’ abroad? Who is committed? Who isn’t committed? What are schools doing? Do we have people attached to organisation responsible for checking doping? On and on. In these absences of Responsibility-taking, this lack of organisation, the public express commonsense ideas or superimposed political views and sentiments as explanations.

We have so many problems in this country. More than half of the athletes were sponsored by private company's and individuals for the Olympic games. The government has to take sole responsibility for the poor performance. Look at the 10 athletes that were banned. Its poor administration that lead to that from the ministry.

Ashirioluwa:
Nigerian government doesn’t encourage the youths to get involved in sport. This is the reason a country with population of over 200 million people can’t win shit in Olympic.

How do you expect youths to involve in all these sports with empty stomach

There is also the fact that people prefer sports that pay to the ones that don't.

And for now football pays. Sports like hockey field events, wrestling etc don't pay that much

i wish i can love your comment one million times.
if people pay attention to details just as you have pointed out, we should all bury our heads in shame rather than applauding a 4th place finish.
Note: I am not condemning the athletes themselves, for everything they have been able to achieve thus far is by personal effort which the Nigerian nation still manages to frustrate every step along the way, for I can imagine the psychological impact the disqualification of ten of their colleagues would had on them.

szczescie:
Shame suppose catch Una

Africans and Nigerians in particular are shameless

Nearly cannot kill a bird

Nigeria at Tokyo Olympics 0-0-0

Bermuda island at Tokyo Olympics 1-0-1

Bermuda a tiny poor island nation sent only 2 athletes to Tokyo Olympics

They won 1 Gold, 1 bronze

You with your shameless 200million people yet just less than 30 reps at the Olympics still nothing to show for it, even one bronze you haven't seen its noise you are good at making, shame suppose to make you keep quiet but no shame so you keep making noise anyhow.

Minor observation on the probable psychology of the Nigerians athletes:

Tobi and Blessing had angry faces -angry unpleasant faces is not normally a Nigerian thing unlike on many African people faces. Naturally pleasant looking faces are one of the ways I am able to tell a Nigerian apart from other Africans. We don’t carry swollen, dirty looking faces in spite of our difficulties and maybe it was because we didn’t use to carry vindictive mindsets, I don’t know. Tobi was pleasant looking in Australia commonwealth games. Anger is not the same thing as determination and if anyone is advising Nigerian athlete to look angry, they most desists at once. Anger saps energy (in sports). A warrior’s Berserker Rage or drug induced rage are different types of anger. Pride – whether it be racial, ethnic, National, class etc- is a more useful psychological tool in sports than anger.

Ayomi90:
You are good, no doubt about that, but you are doing it for a cursed nation, a terrorist country. So, don't expect victory.

Correction:
The curse and terrorism can only be designated to some minority and not the majority.
Analogously, there are some highly placed individuals in USA that are very evil, and the US has been involved in state sponsored terrorism under the guise of promoting democracy all over the world, that has resulted in deaths of tens of millions of people all over the world, and they still achieve many sporting victories.

fergie0o1:


SuperSport

That was Nigeria’s closest shot to a medal so far in #Tokyo2020. She finished 4th.

She raced pretty well! Unfortunately she had a pretty poor start - probably the slowest reaction time of the entire field. If not for that, she very likely would have picked up a medal.

jeff1607:


People like you will have kids and compare them with others if others are doing better.

Na people like you dey support mediocrity. Ur pikin with more resources fail while a kid with less do much better wetin u go talk?

Fragility6:

Na people like you dey support mediocrity. Ur pikin with more resources fail while a kid with less do much better wetin u go talk?

People have succeeded Wit less available, examples are everywhere, so all you do is guide.

If it we were to go by your words any who has high resources most succeed irrespective of interest, all ivy schools in Nigeria would be winning competitions back to back or be better than all the kids out there.

Panic or less preparation which is common in Nigeria isn't an excuse ba?

An average Nigerian athlete, starts training late into adolescence and most ain't got no talent plus they ridicule themselves with performance enhancing drugs to beat fellow Nigeria, age people falsify nko?

No further response will be given.

jeff1607:


People have succeeded Wit less available, examples are everywhere, so all you do is guide.

If it we were to go by your words any who has high resources most succeed irrespective of interest, all ivy schools in Nigeria would be winning competitions back to back or be better than all the kids out there.

Panic or less preparation which is common in Nigeria isn't an excuse ba?

An average Nigerian athlete, starts training late into adolescence and most ain't got no talent plus they ridicule themselves with performance enhancing drugs to beat fellow Nigeria, age people falsify nko?

No further response will be given.

You dont even know were u stand. Read ur earlier mention on that guy's comment.

U try pass our almighty Basketball team way no pass group stage

U try pass our almighty Basketball team (male and female )way no pass group stage

Akolawole:


Anyone who tagged Nigeria a CURSED can NEVER be BLESSED in that Nation.

Am not living in Nigeria so u in it can remain cursed. I am blessed already in my ancestral land and am comfortable.

“You learn more from failure than from success.
Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” —
Unknown

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szczescie:
Shame suppose catch Una

Africans and Nigerians in particular are shameless

Nearly cannot kill a bird

Nigeria at Tokyo Olympics 0-0-0

Bermuda island at Tokyo Olympics 1-0-1

Bermuda a tiny poor island nation sent only 2 athletes to Tokyo Olympics

They won 1 Gold, 1 bronze

You with your shameless 200million people yet just less than 30 reps at the Olympics still nothing to show for it, even one bronze you haven't seen its noise you are good at making, shame suppose to make you keep quiet but no shame so you keep making noise anyhow.

[/s] By the time of your posting we got a bronze in wrestling 68kg. But now, she has qualified for final and there is hope that we can win either silver or gold. Stop hating

Mopolchi:
[s][/s] By the time of your posting we got a bronze in wrestling 68kg. But now, she has qualified for final and there is hope that we can win either silver or gold. Stop hating

The fact that she is doing well in wrestling does not mean all is well with our sports.

(The wrestler who did well is 1) no1 in Africa 2) also in the top 5 globally. So performance is par the course)

Mopolchi:
[s][/s] By the time of your posting we got a bronze in wrestling 68kg. But now, she has qualified for final and there is hope that we can win either silver or gold. Stop hating

That is one determined girl, very dedicated, busy, and unwilling to settle for excuses at the expense of what she will gain from the fame of winning honours. She deserve gold, I’ll be praying. Apart for the next opponent the only other obstacle will be poor officiating and blood sample test in laboratories overseen by Nationals and systems we have no way of monitoring for bias and skulduggery.

theres nothing like narrowly missed another competitor put more effort and won simple

7.48am 09 September 2022
Tobi just set a record in the Diamond league.
What a record setting year!
Morale of the story.
Hard work, persevere, WIN!!!