FG plans 'BIG' for Commonwealth Games medalists

The Nigerian Government has said that it will pay special attention to any athlete who wins a medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, Scotland.



Minister of Sports, Dr. Tanmmy Danagogo made this disclosure while speaking on the victory of Nigeria athletes who have won medals for the country’, at the Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, Scotland..

Dr. Danagogo said “the government is going to pay special attention to our gold, silver and bronze medalists in this Games. Once we finish from this Games, we are going to monitor medalists to ensure that they are in shape ahead of other engagements.

We are going to design a monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for them so that we keep tab of everything they do. If we handle them this way, I am sure that we will be in a position to use them to win medals in the forthcoming Olympics and other Games in the future,” he said.

He said “The expectations of Mr. President and the rest of Nigerians is that we win more medals at the Games. We are proud of our athletes for what they have done for the country so far and the government is prepared to give them all the necessary supports they need to succeed”.

The minister who expressed satisfaction at the performances of athletes in the weight lifting and Table Tennis categories said he was very optimistic that Nigeria would win more medals in the tournament.

Oluwatoyin Adesanmi on Sunday, won another gold medal for Nigeria at the Commonwealth Games in the women’s 63kg weightlifting while Obioma Okoli won the silver bringing Nigeria’s number of medals to seven as Blessing Okagbare won the women’s 100m gold on Monday.

“I feel happy and hopeful that we will win more medals” Dr. Danagogo said, noting that the performances of the athletes in the weighlifting catergory has “rekindled our hope that we have the capacity to win more medals in this tournament”.

“If we keep up with this tempo, I am very optimistic that we are going to win more medals and I am urging our athletes to keep up the tempo so that we can continue harvesting more gold, silver and bronze medals,” he said.