Sports experts have emphasised the need for a high performance center in Nigeria if the country must develop sports at the grassroots.
The experts,who were reviewing Team Nigeria’s performance at the 2014 Commonwealth Games on Channels Television’s Sunrise on Saturday, suggested that the centre should be a standard one with medical facilities for out of competition checks.
“The high performance centre is not a track but a laboratory where athletes can check their ability, standard with records taken and then a traing programme can be mapped out based on the athlete situation,” they said.
On Team Nigeria’s excellent run at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow Scotland, George Ashiru, who is the President of the Nigeria Taekwando Federation, revealed that there was a meeting of the high performance task team in Abuja before the games, where a target of the number of gold medals to be won was set.
”What we said was that we cannot get less than the best in the past. This means that if we had ten gold medals in the past, we can’t get less than that in the games, as that would be failure.”
He praised the resilience and determination of the athletes for doing their country proud despite the shambolic preparation towards the games.
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