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Nigeria's Olympics preparation begins Nov. 21: official

Xinhua, October 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Team Nigeria's preparation for the 2016 Olympics would begin on Nov. 21, a top official with the National Sports Commission (NSC) said on Monday.

Alhassan Yakmut, the NSC's Director-General, who made this known while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, the nation's capital city, said the mode of preparation for the Olympics would be different from the preparation for the All African Games.

Already ground works have been concluded, he told reporters.

"Right now we are making contact with the various centers where the preparation will be done," he said.

According to him, the preparation for Olympics is not going to be like that of the All Africa Games.

He told reporters that there is no central point of collection of athletes except the last two weeks to the Olympics where all athletes in all the different sports that Nigeria will be participating in will be in a special camp in Rio.

He said that efforts were been intensified to stage the 2015 National Sports Festival which had now been postponed to 2016. Endit