The Minister of Sports activities Construction, John Enoh, has referred to as on Nigerians to assistance Nigerian athletes taking part within the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics.
Consistent with a put up on his X account on Thursday, he stated, “Our athletes are giving their absolute best and making us proud. D’Tigress made the family proud, and there’s refuse embarassment in dropping to the sector’s #1 ranked staff. They struck a prime word and made a remark even on the quarterfinal fit with 74 – 88.
“The primary African staff ever to get to the quarter-finals, they’ve moved 4 ranks up at the energy score desk. We’re pleased with them. Their video games had been impressive.
“Ese Ukpeseraye was the only African cyclist amongst the 30 cyclists at the Olympics. Uchenna Ogazi, after 36 years, made the finals of the men’s 400m race, and Favour Ofili had a good run and has shown great dexterity.
Let’s keep rooting for our athletes.”
In a similar way, in a remark issued via the Director of Data, Ministry of Sports activities Construction, Kehinde Ajayi, and got from the Federal Ministry of Data and Nationwide Orientation’s X account on Wednesday, the minister steered Nigerian athletes to persist and show off their abilities and tenacity in the actual spirit of Nigerian sportsmanship.
Emphasising the use of resilience and backbone within the face of the difficult occasions, Enoh expressed his self belief within the athletes’ possible to book medals, given the positive assistance they’ve won.
“We take pride in each athlete representing Nigeria. You carry the aspirations and ambitions of the nation, and we stand firmly beside you as you strive for greatness. Let the world witness the fortitude and resolve of Nigerians,” he affirmed.
The Nigerian athletes encountered setbacks within the observe and farmland occasions on Friday, because the family’s hope of crowning its first girl to qualify for the overall within the prime bounce dimmed early on the Stade de France.
Top jumper Temitope Adeshina, did not sunny the 1.97m qualification mark prepared for the development, falling snip of the manage 12 competition progressing to the finals.
Adeshina, who had prior to now prepared a Nigerian document of one.97m within the tournament not up to two months in the past, struggled to surpass 1.92m nearest effectively clearing 1.88m on her 2d struggle, in the long run completing nineteenth within the ultimate standings. She now joins Doreen Amata as the 2 Nigerians who’ve participated within the tournament with out attaining the peak required to book a place within the finals. Amata’s makes an attempt within the tournament in 2008, 2012, and 2016 didn’t fit her feat on the International Championships in 2011, the place she reached the overall in Daegu, South Korea.
Previous to Adeshina’s setback, sprinter Tima Godbless stumbled on the preliminary hurdle within the 100m semifinal.
Because the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games enters its twelfth year, Group Nigeria is about to compete in a layout of thrilling occasions throughout athletics, wrestling, biking, and basketball. Nigeria’s girls’s basketball staff, D’Tigress will face the United States in an exhilarating quarterfinal matchup, presen Samuel Ogazi will struggle to win a medal within the males’s 400m ultimate tournament.
Additionally, queen of the tracks, Oluwatibiloba Amusan, will compete in warmth 1 of the ladies’s 100m hurdles, as she makes an attempt to win her first Olympics medal.