
Blessing Okagbare
One of Nigeria’s foremost sprinters, Blessing Okagbare has disclosed that sometimes she contemplated running for another country due to the unfavourable conditions in Nigeria.
She made this known in an interview with PUNCH’s Pius Ayinor.
Okagbare said that the London Olympics
was by far better that the just concluded Rio Olympics, lamenting the
fact that there was no support for athletes.
Read excerpts below:
How was Rio 2016 generally like for you?
It didn’t feel like an Olympic for me
but not because I didn’t win a medal. This is my third Olympics and I
have been to Olympics that everything was so cheerful and the athletes
were very happy. But for this Rio, I don’t know about other people in
Team Nigeria as I’m speaking for myself, the morale was just low. Some
of the girls come to me and we talk. Some times when they say these
things (about how bad they feel), I just feel like these people feel the
same way I feel. Everything about Rio was just low. This is the worst
Olympics we’ve had.