If anyone says all is well with team Nigeria at the ongoing 2020 Olympics in far away Japan in Tokyo, such a person is among the greatest enemies of Sports sector in the country.
The situation in Team Nigeria camp at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo Japan, is anything but peaceful as they battle from one crisis to the other in a space one week of the global competition,
This is because crises of various proportion have hit the camp within a week of the Summer Olympics which started even before competition
First it was the disqualification of 10 athletes due to the sports ministry, AFN and NOC negligence: then the affected athletes took to the streets of Japan to protest on before the  Minister came to the rescue.
But the greatest problem is the inability of any of the 60 athletes that are representing Nigeria to win any medal as at the time of filing this report.
The greatest of all shocks was when Nigeria’s medal hopeful,’Blessing Okagbare’ tested positive by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) and was suspended with immediate effect after a sample collected from the sprinter tested positive for Human Growth Hormone.
Also, Nigeria’s senior male basketball teams, the D’Tigers  and D’tigress crashed out of the 2020 Olympics Basketball event.
Divine Oduduru was disqualified in the heat 5 of the men’s 100m race because of a false start.
As at the time of filing this report, AljazirahNigeria Sports reports that team Nigeria is yet to win a medal after days of competing at 2020 Olympics.
called from Aljazirahnews.com
By Joel Ajayi

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