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10 Gold Miss: 'There's Need for National Stakeholders Meeting' From Emeka Enechi and Pius Ayinor in Athens It sounds like a National Sovereign Conference but it is not. Instead, the call is for a national sports stakeholders meeting. The call for the meeting was made in Athens yesterday by the Delta State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Chief Solomon Ogba in the wake of Nigeria's no-standing status on the Athens 2004 medals table. The Delta official lamented that the degeneration in the face of world sports by Nigeria has made it an urgent necessity for such a gathering. "We just can't go on like this. We have slipped too down too far and fast and there's need for urgency. "We seriously need to sit and discuss this kind of development. For us not to continue to play the spectators' role at the Olympics, people who really have stake in sports should meet and work something that would change our fortune. "If we concede to the Americans, what about the Jamaicans, people from Bahamas and all small places who have neither our population nor resources. The result they put out at international meets are products of their training schedule and patterns. They work consistently with the experts. It is not to have athletes and cash and not win. "And talking about such gathering, it is not the usual kangaroo arrangement of who really nothing to contribute. If we really want to succeed and lift our sports, then we must be sincere with the people to work out this and the number too," the Commissioner told THISDAYSports. Ogba's statement follows the near annihilation of the country's name from the medals table with most events at their final stages. The Sports Minister Col. Musa Mohammed (rtd) and his deputies had assured the people of Nigeria of 10 gold medals - a haul it would have been by our past standard- before the athletes began the Olympic journey. Eritrea, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago are some of the small countries whose athletes have mounted the winners' podium as Nigerians pray and hope that tomorrow may come in Athens. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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