Well, here's the thing: Nigeria has won 4 gold and 4 silver medals at the Paralympic Games. And the question is - how come?
I mean, if we are that bad on the able-bodied front, should we not be worse on the disabled side? If the sports ministry officials were that corrupt and clueless, we should not even be presenting a team at the Paralympics!

I think the problem is 70% on the side of the athletes we present to these competitions. Looks to me like the disabled athletes have more motivation or will to win, so they're winning. It would be a hard sell if someone says we are better organized for the Paralympics than the Olympics. And that corruption story is neither here nor there. If we have athletes with a winning mentality, they will win. After all, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia all won medals.

Your thoughts?

Another interesting side to it: We seem to have won most of the Paralympic medals in weightlifting.
If we are that strong on the disabled side, why don't we put more into that particular category, for the able athletes. I don't see how Nigeria could have won any track medal at the last Olympics; the field was way too strong. We were lucky to even get into some of those finals.

I'd say Nigerians should concentrate on sports like weightlifting, boxing, and some of the martial arts. We can still put some effort on track, but not really a medals focus. We've not been lucky in that area at all. Save for some relay medals, as well as Chioma Ajunwa's solo gold in the 1996 long jump.