Nigeria Queen of the track, Blessing Okagbare should be allowed to compete only on sprint as this will ease her burden so as to grab a medal for Nigeria. This was the view of sports stakeholders in some quarters.
The lady of the tracks have been saddled with the responsibility of competing in too many events, for goodness sake, this is not too good for Nigeria and Blessing herself.
Too many events may only weigh her down as her energy may be demanding which would have it toll on her to the detriment of herself and the country.
100metres, 200metres may be ideal for her to pick in all the events she is representing Nigeria in the ongoing meet at Beljin for now. It appears Bless Okagrbare looks as the only medals hopeful of Nigeria.
The Nigeria sports commission should think of raising athletes in all sporting events in all ramifications, for the good of the country. Discovering athletes should be a deal venture Nigeria sports commission ought to pursuit aggressively from time to time to replace aging athletes.
What of if Blessing Okagbare breaks down, what then will happen to the fate of Nigeria in all the events she is representing Nigeria? The time to make a change is now, tomorrow maybe too late.
Nigeria is a blessed country of sporting talents, it only planning, administrative management that is needed to accomplish the needful.
Like the Niger Delta region could conveniently produce swimmers, wrestlers and boxers with ease at regular basis if good planning is made with proper arrangement. Most of the athletes that had represented and got laurels for the country in swimming wrestling and boxing came out from the Niger Delta.
Every region of Nigeria is blessed in one or two sporting events. Planning, administrative management with proper arrangement is the issue bordering Nigeria to generate sporting talents, the lack of sincere planning is labouring Blessing Okagbare, there are one and many sporting talents like Blessing Okagbare across Nigeria.
It is high time Nigeria sports administrators from each state in Nigeria should go down to the grassroots to discover more sporting talens to stop bordering one particular athlete with lots of events while the government in effect could do something to change this trend, as it appears with Blessing Okagbare, representing Nigeria in more than two events.
Grassroots sports seemed to be the answer to achieve this noble goal, if Nigeria hopes to make impact in sports order than football alone. ###
