Team Nigeria Hopeful As Commonwealth Games Begins

 

As the 20th Commonwealth Games opens in Glasgow, Scotland with a spectacular opening ceremony,Team Nigeria will be aiming to match or even surpass her best ever performance at the sport fiesta formerly called the British Empire Games.

Of course, the 1994 edition hosted by the city of Victoria, Canada, remains evergreen in the memories of Nigerians. That was where Nigeria grabbed 37 medals (11 gold, 13 silver, and 13 bronze) to record her best ever outing to date. At this edition featuring 71 countries in 261 events of 17 sports, Nigeria will be participating in six sports namely; athletics (46 athletes), boxing (11boxers), table tennis (10 players), shooting (16 shooters), weightlifting (15 lifters) and wrestling (14 wrestlers). Team Nigeria will also be competing in power-lifting (6 lifters) and para-athletics (9 athletes). In all, 127 athletes will be representing Nigeria in Glasgow.

Starting from 23^rd July through August 3, all eyes will be on Glasgow, with Nigerians waiting for another miracle to happen, perhaps, to mark our centenary as a nation.  Athletes to look out for in Team Nigeria are,Boxing: Efetobor Apochi; Running: Blessing Okagbare; Triple Jump: Tosin Oke;  Wrestling:Sinivie Boltic; Table Tennis: Wahid Enitan-Oshodi. Each of them have given our dear country a medal,We hope they do same and more in Glasgow. Good luck to Team Nigeria.