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Nigeria' s plan for Rio 2016 intact: official

Xinhua, April 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Nigeria' s strategic plans for the Rio 2016 Olympics remained intact, a top official with the country's Ministry of Youths and Sports said Thursday.

The ministry had prepared and was looking at the sports in which Nigeria have comparative advantages, Hauwa-Kulu Akinyemi, the Director of Federations and Elite Athletes Department, told reporters in Abuja.

"We have our strategic plans toward Rio and we are working toward the realization of all the items that are in our strategic plans," the official said.

"So, we don' t have any problem. What we have in our strategic plans is to look at all the sports that we have qualified for so far and do a comparative analysis," she added.

"We will look at our performances in those sports. For now, we are concentrating on four sports and some events," she said.

Akinyemi listed the four sports as track and field, football, wrestling and boxing.

On the poor outing of Nigerian athletes at the recent world indoor championships in the U.S., the director said none of the Nigerian athletes at the competition was an Olympic athlete.

The sports official said she was optimistic that Nigeria would perform better at the Rio 2016 Olympics than it did at the London 2012 Olympics, where Nigeria won no medal. Endit