flemsy15:
Everything is going wrong for TeamNigeria. From disqualified athletes, to this one experiencing 'muscle pull' during a final race not forgetting the Male basketball team that did wonderfully well in friendlies prior to the Olympics but suffered 3 straight defeats.

paulolee:

village people oooo

Nbotee:
A Nigerian made it to the 100m final for the first time but had a disappointing race. He's d second Nigerian Athlete to have muscle pull while racing

Nbotee:
A Nigerian made it to the 100m final for the first time but had a disappointing race. He's d second Nigerian Athlete to have muscle pull while racing

SimplePlan34:
Is usain bolt retired?

Awoo88:
Wait oo, Jamaica dey develop pass Nigeria? Wetin make dem dey run pass us

Kenn55:
Has Nigeria won any medal so far? I'm not following the Olympics

einsteine:
An American running for Italy, Marcell Jacobs was born in Texas, USA to an Italian mother and African American father.

SIRTee15:
The winner of the 100m gold medal Marvell Jacobs is mixed race. African american father and italian mother.
Now social media is at war with both Americans and italian claiming him.
I thought it's only we Nigerians that like to do attache and claim other nations success.

Beancounter94:


Everybody does it (David Alaba is claimed by Austria, the Phillipines, and Nigeria for example.)

seborrhic:

Big lie.
Nigerians have been making it to d finals before.
Just haven't been able to win a 100m medal.

Beancounter94:


That's not the first time a Nigerian has made it to the 100m final at the Olympics.

1992...The Ezinwa brothers

1996...Oladape Adenekan

Even 2004...we had two guys of Nigerian descent , but no Nigerian in the final.

Safemoon:
This Olympics games is a sign of how rotten and dead the zoo is.

fergie0o1:
First Italian Gold in the Olympics 100m Event
Set a new European record in the 100m event
Personal Best



Tokyo2020


Unfortunately, Nigeria's hopeful, Enoch Adegoke limped off injured, in the last 30 metres of the race.


Also, in the 100m women's final, it was a clean sweep for the Jamaicans as Thompson-Herah clocked an Olympic record time of 10.61 seconds, beating compatriot and two-time Olympics 100m Champion, Fraser-Pryce.

Thompson-Herah beat Griffith Joyner's 10.62 secs record set at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.




Tokyo2020


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-OMz1AYIQ



Were nigeria dey der

SIRTee15:


Well, I guess success has many fathers. Failure has only one mother.
I just couldn't imagine Americans joining the attache trend.
Even nairaland won't allow giannis antetokumpo rest. See the way Yorubas and ibos dey drag the guy.

Awoo88:
Wait oo, Jamaica dey develop pass Nigeria? Wetin make dem dey run pass us

Nbotee:
A Nigerian made it to the 100m final for the first time but had a disappointing race. He's d second Nigerian Athlete to have muscle pull while racing

vincentjk:
Even she herself couldn't believe it, I give it to the Jamaicans for the strength and agility which they exhibited so far in the race.


But kenyas are still the baba for running, my uncle once told me how they chased lions and other wild animals miles away from their residence on barefoot.

Ishilove:

Running long distance, not short distance. Kenyans and Ethiopians dominate that field.

Beancounter94:


No it is a sign of how African countries don't spend enough on athletics.

Like now, does your state, for example, have a year long, interschool athletics league that runs all year...(thought not).

Does your state have a basketball league that covers all the schools in your state...from primary to secondary school? (Thought not)

Is there a similar competition for the tertiary institutions in your state (nothing ).

And again, when your local government chairman is talking about sports development what does he mean ? (A) FOOTBALL, b) football c) football d) football e) Gymnastics .

How many of your youth play other sports (apart from football and possibly athletics ) in your state...and by youth I mean 5-18 year olds.?

How many coaches are there in your state for the following sports? Basketball, wrestling, volleyball, tabletennis, weightlifitnng, etc etc.

Does your state university or any provate indiuvidual have a sports research institute ?

What programme does your state have for training future statrs


Finally...how much does Nigeria spend on sports in a year a) 400 billion dollars or B) 4 BILLION dollars, or c 4 MILLION dollars. How much does that compare to medal winners like the US, Australia or Canada?

The problem is not the rotten state of the zoo. The problem is, like most African coutnries, we don't have the cash or the people or the expertise to win medals. Fixing that requires we stop relying on oil and diversify our economy, get more people interested in more sports from grassroots up, or train more people, and so on.

Even if we split Nigeria, I guarantee that Biafra would have the same problems, or OODUA or many other nations. As long as all we think of is football.