₦airaland Forum

Chanchit: England no3...? E be like say FIFA don dey count Olympic medals too o, anyway, them go return to their natural habitat after Olympic...

Germannig: May be they should organize an African olympic where she can get a medal. Local champion.

bayulll01: just watch the 4*400 metre race all i can say it,we might end up not coming with any medals,golden bronz not sure,how the hell did those clown represent us,this is our worst outing in the history olympic

yemmieh: if i b president, i no go dey release money 4 ani sport in nigeria,sport in nigeria is just a waste of public funds

Tstark: So is he resigning or not?!

Lagusta: Is this a poem, a novel, an article or what

Our representative came last, the next thing is to carry our crayons and write "tales by moonlight"

Nigeria I hail thee....

Tolaaaaannni: Wow, and i had so much hope in her. Anyway sha, like always at least she made register.

zeefever: Maybe the same witches chasing Blessing Okagbare are chasing her too.

Rossikk: Come on shut the fucck up and sit down, let's hear word. Your mouth like ''instead of preparing our athletics''. THOSE ATHLETES ARE WELL PREPARED AND GAVE EVERYTHING THEY'VE GOT. Many of them even train in places like the US and co, like Blessing Okagbare herself, so training and preparation is NOT an issue. THE REAL ISSUE is that the pool of talent is limited because the strongest ones among us are too pre-occupied with ''making it big'' as lawyers, doctors, IT workers, engineers etc, and they LOOK DOWN ON ATHLETICS and sports. How many of us were excellent at soccer in secondary school? MANY OF US! I personally know at least TEN guys that were potential WORLD BEATERS in soccer from my secondary school days. One other guy I knew was so good at Long Jump that he outjumped everyone else in the school by a distance of at least three times the normal. If that guy had continued he would have been an Olympic gold medallist without a shadow of doubt. So what happened? We passed out of school and dropped it all because we were told by our equally dumb parents that sports was for poor folk and strugglers - the underclass. Well, the underclass lack the lifetime nourishment and even the confidence to take on, and beat the world. You can train them from now till eternity, they can never turn out to be the next Usein Bolt or Carl Lewis. Until there is a large enough pool of talent to choose from, which can only happen when the strongest and best among us decide to get out there and train and represent our country, forget about Nigerian athletes coming home with bags of medals. FORGET IT.

stillwater: Her problem is having a good start. The potential is there. In fact we've always had the potential. Back then in secondary school there were girls and boys that if given a chance to develop would be giving the Jamaicans and Americans a tough run. Talking about ISL, Methodist girls, Apata. Those Methodist girls, wow. If only the government would take this seriously .

akintun: D good thing about blessing is dat she really started competing against d best at d London grand prix. I wont be surprised if she goes to Zurich after d Olympics and win dis same girls

tchidi: I wish she won a medal, not for us, but for her... Nigeria played no part in making her d athlete she is now, all of a sudden, we want her to bring medals for us... Ndi oshi ka anyi bu!

Mr.chippychappy:
Ta shut up dia ! we no dey carry first for boko haram

naiijaboii: Kudos to her for getting to the final! Ability takes you only so far in these competitions...the extra edge comes from having quality training, coaches, facilities, preparation, training partners, mentality etc..basically all the things that Nigeria does NOT have.

Considering the country she comes from I would have to say "well done" to her for getting to the finals against all odds!!

Nigeria cant keep planting corn and expect to harvest cocoa yam!

zugoboss: What a day for the Nigerians. The men were an apology, our only hope dissapointed us just now. The Nigerian girl Onipitan that represented Britain took last in the 200m. The pretty Ibo girl that represented Norway took 5th in her race too.
But that Jamaican champion Pryce has a priceless butts o! Check it on the slow mo u'll appreciate it better.

360command: God please , let Nigeria take 1 medal home. even if it is bronze. let the world not laugh at us.

elimokhai: What's your definition of try? 8/8. 11.01 seconds.

EPOMA: i dey vex, make we wait for 200 m, well done by her

trulyspeaking: How could Blessing come last.. oh No... obviously all our athletes are suffering from GEJ jinx... this dude is just a bad omen for Nigeria sport.

CyberG: Nigeria mostly had NOT contributed nothing to the Olympic athletes in terms of training, grooming or motivation. This is the only difference between countries that win and corrupt countries that steal all their wealth and spend it on cassava bread! It is the same for all Naija teams be it basketball or athletics! It's ridiculous that a country that does not prepare even consistently for 6 months wants to feature among countries where athletes prepare non-stop with all amenities at their disposal for 4+ years!

lepasharon: regina george also!

Afro_Blue: Let's play put a face or pic to the names of these dedicated world class athletes.

I'll do the first section.

Please join in.


100m Women
1. Blessing Okagbare
[img]http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c9c869e201310f9aec2a970c-800wi[/img]

2. Gloria Asumnu

[img]http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCZzFC6CKTViJiPoggoHi59688ONVfJxAqJl03sdnAUS6X-gnOuvem9C8_oQ[/img]

3. Lawretta Ozoh

https://www.athletics-africa.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/okagbare_and_milama_benin2012.jpg


Lawretta isn't in the third picture. That is Ruddy Zang Milama of Gabon.

miteolu: I promise you we cant get 5 golds and upon million of naira spent on the wasters

miteolu: Yes I understand buy are boys & girls should move up from only participation to medals owner

كلورين: How this guy take be nigerian?
He dosnt look it even small!!!! Colser to brazilan.

deshclones: smh..all these Yoruba brazillians...abeg make i lookout for the pride of biafra..chukwumerije..go bring the gold boy..

Martini101: I said it that may be this guy wasnt too good to represent GB and he opted 4 Nigeria! He just proved me right, but anyways he tried. Congratz to d guy sha, Atleast, 'he was an Olympian'

black_beau: A lesson for nigeria.just because he resides abroad and is acclaimed as the best doesn't necessarily mean he is that good.pick up a local fisherman in the niger delta region,teach him the rules of the game,tell him how much he stands to gain if he wins and watch nigeria pick up the Gold medal.until we start using our local talents,we will never get anywhere.

chic2pimp: Or May Be Not

Litmus: For the first time Okagbare ran under 11 sec, this was in the preliminaries. In the finals she won in a slower time ( 11.13 sec) and because Jamaican, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stumbled out of the blocks. At the Olympics, Okagbare will have to qualify through the heats, which are debilitating and beat medal favourites, Shelly-Ann Fraser , Carmelita Jeter and the Ivory Coast girl. Okagbare has a lot of talent and her height is an advantage, she would need to run under 11 sec again and believe in herself to stand a chance of winning or placing in the medals.

buffny: good for her. she has improved a lot. she used to suck real bad just a few months ago.

she is now winning races at the top level.

South-East:
Musiwa:


I agree with that.

ayusco:
nigerian athletics is bad now yes but we should stop giving the impression we were always world beaters in the past. yes we produced athletes chidi imoh, ezinwa twins, olapede adenikan, mary onyali etc who got to olympic and world champ finals but usually finished 5th or towards the last positions rarely winning medals(remember Seoul 88?).

its only atlanta 96 one can say was a bit of a golden generation even that performance (one longjump gold ajunwa, one silver women's 4*400 and 2 bronze falilat 400m & onyali 200m) though good wasn't earth shattering based on international standard yet that was our BEST!

now on okagbare one is not justifying mediocrity but appreciating improvement. okagbare barely a few years ago she was a long jumper now she's competing against seasoned 100 m runners and finishing 5th. i think if she improves on her start she would be quite good.

EfeEkarume:
So fast she ran, quicker . . . like a pregnant snail!

otokx:
What a shame? We have deceived ourselves to the point of memory loss? The women's 400m Gold medalist is from Botswana yet some dumb Bottom poster wants us to as the pastors say - celebrate our milestones.

crispgg:
Any Nigerian who celebrates this either has a very short memory or does not know the history of athletics in Nigeria.

At a time, Nigeria was considered a major force in international athletics. We were actually at par with countries like Jamaica, Barbados etc. America actually feared us at short distance events, this fear was actually bought to the fore then when American Olympic medallist Carl Lewis called on American Universities to stop giving sport scholarships to Nigerian athletes as we were becoming a major threat to them.

This is a country that once paraded the likes of Chidi Imoh, Innocent Egbunike, Olapade Adenekan, Fati Ogunkoya, Seun Ogunkoya, Bisi Afolabi, Mary Onyali, Akinremi Sisters and many more I cant even remember now. These were all winners and medal haulers for Nigeria at international events. We once had two Nigerians in the finals of the olympics 100m mens event. We were sure of carting away medals at any event we went to. Foreign countries like Portugal and Spain were poaching our stars. 

But now the situation is very bad. A friend of mine, a former athlete went to the Mobil track and field event that was used to select our reps at this world championships. He came back very sad and told me that the time that the guy who won the mens 100m had would not have qualified him for the finals of the same event some 10 to 15 years ago. And you guys are celebrating 5th position?

This only shows the level we have degenrated to.