Because the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games enters day seven at the moment, Staff Nigeria made up of 36 athletes might be aiming to haul medals in monitor and discipline occasions which can start at the moment in Paris, France.
The athletics occasions will start with the Males’s and Girls’s 20km Race Stroll at the moment, August 1, with a full schedule of occasions commencing on Friday, August 2, together with the decathlon 100m, hammer throw qualification, ladies’s excessive soar qualification, and ladies’s 100m preliminary rounds, amongst different occasions.
Regardless of the brouhaha over the omission of Favour Ofili’s title from the checklist of rivals for the ladies’s 100m occasion, surely, athletics stays Staff Nigeria’s space of energy because the nation boasts of world performers who’re aiming for podium end on the Paris Video games.
Main the Staff Nigeria medal cost is the ladies’s 100 hurdle world file holder, Tobiloba Amusan. Her distinctive kind makes her a powerful contender for gold and a possible successor to Chioma Ajunwa as Nigeria’s Olympic gold medalist.
Lengthy jumper Ese Brume is one other athlete to observe because the Commonwealth champion and African file holder goals to emulate the feat of Chioma Ajunwa by securing gold in her occasion. She at present holds the commonwealth video games file, African junior file and African file within the occasion. Brume received the bronze medal within the Lengthy Leap occasion on the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, with a soar of 6.91 m and on the 2020 Summer season Olympics in Tokyo, with a soar of 6.97m, and she or he might be aiming to make it gold in Paris.
Shot putter Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, the African champion, is a powerful medal prospect for Nigeria, whereas the younger and gifted Favour Ashe has proven immense promise with a latest private better of 9.94s within the 100m.
Additionally, Favour Ofili, however her exclusion from the 100 race, she stays medal within the 200 race. She turned the second-fastest indoor 200m runner in collegiate historical past (after Steiner) in February 2023, setting even higher African indoor file of twenty-two.36 s on the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Becoming a member of them are different immensely gifted athletes together with Tima Godbless, Rosemary Chukwuma, Ella Onojuvwevwo, Esther Joseph and Godson Oghenebrume, forming a formidable lineup that guarantees to dazzle spectators and rivals alike for podium in Paris.
