The National Sports Commission,NSC, has said that the commission
would create a viable platform for Nigeria's athletes to compete
favourable with their counterparts in the world with regular
international competitions ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Its
Director General, who made this statement after Shogbamu Waheed, a
boxer loss to Davies Zack of Wales in the sixty- four kilogramme in
the men's light weight category, commended the pugilist to giving his
opponents a good fight especially in the first- two round of the fight
which went in favor of Zack based of judges unanimous decision of three
points to nothing
Elegbeleye said the
Commonwealth Games had revealed that Nigeria's athletes are very good,
strong and
determined but they lack technical depth of sports when compared to
their counterparts from other Commonwealth nations who were not as
strong as they were but they were technically better.
He
said the Glasgow Commonwealth Games which was preparatory for the
Olympic Games in Brazil, in 2016, would help the National Sports
Commission to engage the athletes in series of training tours to improve
their skills in a bid to make the nation proud at the Olympic Games.
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