Sports enthusiasts seek forensic probe into Team Nigeria’s poor performance

Some Sports stakeholders in the country have called for a forensic probe into the poor performance of Team Nigeria at the just concluded Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria’s athletes returned home without a single medal for the eight time in the country’s Olympic history, as Team Nigeria concluded its Paris 2024 Olympic campaign.

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games was a replication of the 1952 Helsinki, the 1956 Melbourne, the 1960 Rome, the 1968 Mexico, the 1980 Moscow, the 1988 Seoul and the London 2012.

A cross section of sports enthusiasts who spoke to NAN on Tuesday in Abuja, lamented the lack of podium finish for any of the registered athletes in their respective events.

They said that there was a need for a thorough investigation into everything that transpired at the Games, right from its inception to the end.

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Nigeria’s Pillar of Sports, Donatus Agu-Ejidike called on the National Assembly, and other relevant government authorities to launch a forensic probe into Team Nigeria’s shambolic performance at the Games.

This according to him would enable decision makers harvest the necessary information that would guide them on how to avert a repeat in future.

The Anambra-born Sports philanthropist also lamented the administrative ineptitude that led to the omission of some athletes who were before the games, medal prospects.

He stressed that, there was the need for a comprehensive probe to unravel the identity of “who failed to do what”, that denied Ofili the opportunity she had spent years of hard work preparing for.

He also recalled with regret, the number of athletes of Nigerian descent who,