Nigeria return from Deaflympics with 1 bronze

Nigeria return from Deaflympics with 1 bronze

NIGERIA'S team to the just-concluded World Deaflympics Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria came back to the country with a bronze medal.
President of the Nigeria Deaf Sports Federation, Alhaji Usman Nahuche who was also the leader
of delegation attributed the seemingly unimpressive performance of the 54-man contingent (38
athletes) to lack of exposure on the part of the athletes.
Nahuche stated that the Nigerian athletes fell short of standard compared to their counterparts from other nations who were well exposed having featured in series of international meets.
In his remark, Secretary General of the Nigeria Deaf Sports Federation, Lukman Agbabiaka,
said the championship has exposed the athletes to meet up with international standard and 
brace up for the challenges ahead.
"Our football team participated at the global championship for the first time and so, they could not match their opponents in terms of skills. Again in athletics, inexperience cost us medals as our athletes found it difficult to cope with the starter's flash light and as a result of this, five of them were disqualified for false-start," Agbabiaka said.
He stated that the country's ping pongers to the championship also played with sophisticated table for the first time which affected their performance adding that "in all, we hope to improve in subsequent editions".
It will be recalled that Nigeria's only medal was won by the men's 4X100m relay team as the
country finished 45th out of 67 countries which participated at Sofia 2013. 
Nigeria placed 37th position at the last last Deaflympics held in China Taipei in 2009 with
two silver medals.
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