Nigeria is already late in beginning its preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to be hosted by Brazil, Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Patrick Ekeji has said.
He said this at a reception hosted by Dr Dalhatu Tafida, the Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, on Saturday in London.
The reception was in honour of the Nigerian Paralympians at the London 2012 Paralympic Games which ended yesterday.
“We have already started out late in the preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympics,’’ the Europe Correspondent of NAN quotes Ekeji as saying.
Ekeji however appealed to the federal government to use the negatives of the current situation to achieve the positive and turn around the sports sector for good.
“We should use the disappointment of the able-bodied athletes at the Olympic Games and the success of the physically-challenged athletes at the Paralympics to transform the sports sector.
“Yes, the able-bodied Olympians must have disappointed the nation, but the physically-challenged Paralympians have made us proud.
“But right now we need the political will to develop and transform sports. Winning medals these days at international meets has become more challenging with the emerging technological innovations,’’ he said.
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