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AlphaCentauri:
oduduwa doing it big in rio

awon ti oduduwa ni yen

I didn't see any team Oduduwa in the opening ceremony

Twizzy30:
Go For Gold

He's out already. Got knocked out in second round today. He gave his best but it wasn't good enough.

Noneroone:
useless country

reasonable countries are already winning gold but we see nothing wrong about 200 million people making much of a table tennis player who advanced to second round and who will still be booted out when the competition hots up.

Receive sense in the mighty name of JESUS!

I will personally celebrate the man (Segun) if he wins just bronze at the tournament. The reason being that Asian invented table tennis and knows how to do it better and Segun is competing with the world table tennis champions not Africa champions.

HE IS ALREADY OUT

Twizzy30:
Go For Gold

Noneroone:
useless country

reasonable countries are already winning gold but we see nothing wrong about 200 million people making much of a table tennis player who advanced to second round and who will still be booted out when the competition hots up.

bloody keyboard warrior. Is your hand and leg broken? why didn't you compete if you could do better? Fool, fork off!

Quadri Aruna jut won , he is through to round 3, but against a better ranked opponent

MykOnyxo:
You dey vex abi? change nationality now.... you can't have much when u can't appreciate little... that's our problem in this country.... most of us don't appreciate the good but usually point out to areas to criticize.. I am sure if some people get to heaven them go still blame the architect wey construct God's throne say the throne suppose get gutter under.....

did you even understood what the guy you quoted said?

He's saying this guy has been going to the Olympics for the past 28yrs, that are there not young vibrant potential players within the population of about 200million people they can train?

Do you even know he has never won any medal at the 7 Olympic games he has attended?

Can't you see how young the Asian players are?

nnokwa042:
with which gold? what of kanu that won african best footballer two times or George weah pls stop this is not good i get am before no be property

Pls wat is dis one saying? Wetin concern football and tennis? Illiteracy na bastard sha

DumDum13656:
he is not No1, Quadri is and it doesn't matter

What is this one saying?.

benji93:
Quadri Aruna jut won , he is through to round 3, but against a better ranked opponent

He is facing the Taiwan dude tonight, hand no go dey pain am?.

Sincere4u:
A child born in his first attempt could be finishing university or doing NYSC by now.
If Usain Bolt were to be a Nigerian he would've represented us throughout his lifespan.
Jeeeeeeez, something is wrong somewhere. This can't be happening if we aren't getting it wrong somewhere.
I remember the days of medalists like Chidi Imo, Mary Onyali, Innocent Egbunike and how they were quickly toppled by younger athletes sooner than later.
This our tennis player is not even nearly as sharp, smart, and quick as he was 24yrs ago and nobody could take over from a guy who has seen better days after 24yrs of depreciation.
Could it be an indication of the level of hunger at the grassroots. Person wey never chop no fit get time for sports.

Sports is actually a good way out of poverty.

If this guy can mobilise some of our jobless youths who already play Table Tennis, coach them through local tourneys here in Nigeria and start selecting some of the good ones. We already have tables and paddles. And he has experience plus he can watch videos of Asian players to see what techniques they have. Then once he has something going, approach companies and people for funding.

If we can get things working without waiting for government, government will come and look for you. If this man can have a popular training for Table Tennis at a stadium like Teslim Balogun, get small sponsorship and a lot of media coverage (not hard to do), and have people talking about his work, then even the next gubernatorial aspirant will be forced to treat with him for publicity (after all, presidential aspirants try and use celebrities for their own use) and he will get more sponsorship.

Stop chasing easy money and start working. Our people keep looking for something that will make them hammer in 1 year's time. Once you start doing well, sponsors come easier.

That is one of my issues with athletes, we see nothing from them until Olympics. The smart ones like Blessing Okagbare work their butts off and prove themselves and start getting sponsors. Most of the others will be waiting for sponsorship without results.

This r the kind of news Nigerians want, not that of our selfish politicians that don't know what they r doing, always causing havoc everywhere.

jstbeinhonest:
What is this one saying?.

making sense

jstbeinhonest:
He is facing the Taiwan dude tonight, hand no go dey pain am?.

thts bad, let's hope he would have been well rested before then

Segun Toriola is an experienced table-tennis player; only that playing the Japan and China is tough.

Onegai:
Sports is actually a good way out of poverty.

If this guy can mobilise some of our jobless youths who already play Table Tennis, coach them through local tourneys here in Nigeria and start selecting some of the good ones. We already have tables and paddles. And he has experience plus he can watch videos of Asian players to see what techniques they have. Then once he has something going, approach companies and people for funding.

If we can get things working without waiting for government, government will come and look for you. If this man can have a popular training for Table Tennis at a stadium like Teslim Balogun, get small sponsorship and a lot of media coverage (not hard to do), and have people talking about his work, then even the next gubernatorial aspirant will be forced to treat with him for publicity (after all, presidential aspirants try and use celebrities for their own use) and he will get more sponsorship.

Stop chasing easy money and start working. Our people keep looking for something that will make them hammer in 1 year's time. Once you start doing well, sponsors come easier.

That is one of my issues with athletes, we see nothing from them until Olympics. The smart ones like Blessing Okagbare work their butts off and prove themselves and start getting sponsors. Most of the others will be waiting for sponsorship without results.

Hahahahaha, sister e no easy o. You've made your points sha.

2014 Male Table Tennis Star Quadri ARUNA (NGR) put the crowd into further shock as he played the match of his life to knock out world number seven CHUANG Chih-Yuan (TPE) out of the Men’s Singles event, dominating 4-0 (11-6, 12-10, 11-6, 11-7)

“Last time I played Chuang Chih-Yuan was earlier this year on the ITTF World Tour in Germany, where I lost in four straight games, my goal today was to improve on that performance and fight to win one game!” stated a pleased ARUNA. “After I won the first game I became more confident. This is the best moment of my life and my career.”