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Indiscipline cause of boxers
Olympic failure, says Okorodudu
By Anthony
Abolo,Jr.
Reporter, Lagos
Olympian Jerry
Okorodudu has attributed Nigeria’s poor outing at the Olympics to
indiscipline amongst the officials responsible for the welfare of the athletes.
He said that the
boxers and officials were not in good terms all through the period spent in
camp in Cuba and this led to their
poor performance in spite of the high hopes and expectations.
According to the
ex- Olympian, “the boxers and the officials were not in good terms .They
were always fighting and quarrelling amongst themselves.While the officials
wanted one thing, the coaches wanted another.”
He further said
that the Director of Sports was given bad advice by some officials and this
affected the overall performance of the team.He said there was bad blood
between the secretary and the coaches as a result of the advice given to the
director of sports.
Citing examples, he
said that the team did not go with training partners to Cuba which was wrong saying that sparring partners were
needed as a part of the training process.
“We need training partners to
enhance the performance of the boxers.All they were doing in Cuba was just going daily to the gym to train on their own and return to
their rooms.It is not done that way” he said.
Okorodudu said he
received an e-mail from one of the boxers telling him that there were some
problems in the Nigerian camp in Cuba.
He said he was told
that the boxers had locked out their officials in one instance saying that they
were not ready to work with Nigerian officials anymore because they were corrupt and were in the habit of
womanizing instead of taking interest in the task that had brought the team to Cuba in the first place.
He concluded by
saying that he was not ready to speculate on what went wrong in Greece until
the team returns to tell their story.
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