It is less than 24 months to the 2012 London Olympics where Nigerian athletes are expected to compete with the best in the world for honours, but the signal these athletes are getting is not an encouraging one for them.
Just last month in Delhi, India, the athletes, after what some of them described as not too impressive preparation for a competition of a Commonwealth Games magnitude, performed beyond the expectations of Nigerians, including their administrators through the usual sheer Nigerian spirit.
Apart from the few drug stain by three athletes, Folashade Abugan, Damola Osayomi and Samuel Okon, Team Nigeria hauled more gold than their 1994 performance in Victoria, Canada, the best for the country before now.
Again last month in Accra, Ghana, Team Nigeria through scrabble conquered Africa by retaining the African title through Wellington Jighere, the Delta-born player who had won it two years earlier in Nairobi, Kenya.
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