Odunayo Adekuoroye was Team Nigeria’s hope and face at the Tokyo Olympics. She was so good that she was described as good as gold. Nigerians looked eagerly to her fight with high hopes.

But the unexpected happened yesterday as Adekuoroye was beaten flatly through a pinfall after romping to an 8-0 lead by Moldova’s Nichita Anastasia. How are the mighty fallen!

The venue became quiet like a graveyard. Sports Minister clasped his hands on his head. Daniel Igali was shell-shocked. Solomon Ogba was confused and kept asking; “what happened? She was leading 8-0”. AFN President Tony Okowa, NOC President Habu Gumel and Scribe Banji Oladapo. They were all stung. Tears welled on the eyes of Igali. Other international officials mourned.

She( Adekuoroye) had beaten this same girl in all their previous meetings. She beats her mercilessly by 10-0, 10-0, 10-0 in all their fights. This is unbelievable”, he said still stuck on his seat as Sports Minister Dare and Ogba offered him help.
The zone was clear for her to go straight to the final. The tough fighters she beats were not on her zone”, Igali lamented.

Looking at a possible technical aspect that could still offer Adekuoroye the chance of survival, Igali shook his head and foreclosed any hope.

This Moldovan is not good and cannot get to the final to offer such hope for the Nigerian.

And true to his words, Adekuoroye,s conqueror was dismissed in her next fight 6-3 by a Bulgarian thereby extinguishing any ray of hope for Adekuoroye.

The shock was tremendous and the deafening silence that descended on the hall showed that a calamity had happened.

Summary:


Buhari's infectious failure has been properly dispersed to Adekuronye.

She failed woefully even when people expected her to win.

N1 to $1 -

Payment to unemployed Youths -


No medical trip abroad -

The loss can be traced to the self-inflicted problems the Buhari regime dished to Nigerian athletes representing the country .

Abeg, she don lose be that. All the people wey dey lose too dem be human beings...

Chai

I'm not suprised. The echelons of Nigeria sports need to recognise the importance of psychology in sports and implement such in our system. For some reason, Nigeria sportsmen and women, unlike Nigerians generally, seem afflicted by self-doubts inversely disproportional to their actual abilities. And they nether posses shear bloody-mindedness. Blessing is for me an example, this track star had the ability and stature to break the women’s 100m world record or merely achieve far more than she has archived in the sports. I’ve been a track and field super fan for a long time and have developed a keen eye for even the smallest aspect of it. Blessing had the habit of becoming aware of her competitors midway through a race instead of concentrating on running her own race and focusing on the finish line as is thought. Her worst races were due to this habit. On becoming aware of her competitors she would stiffen up or loose self belief in her ability to speed up towards the second half the race.