Paris 2024: Nigeria end Olympics campaign without any medal
By Oyediji Oluwaseun Babatunde
Team Nigeria finished its outing at Paris 2024 Olympics without winning a single medal.
Hannah Reuben was the last athlete left to salvage a medal for Nigeria, but she lost her second round fight in women’s freestyle wrestling 76kg on Saturday.
She lost 5-2 (Victory by points) to Mongolia’s Davaanasan Amar Enkh.
It has been a chastening Olympics for Nigerian Sports, the country’s worst outing at the Olympics since London 2012.
Other medal hopefuls; Ese Brume (long jump), Tobi Amusan (100m hurdles), Odunayo Adekuoroye and Blessing Oborodudu (wrestling) faltered at their events.
Historically, this year’s Olympics will be the eighth time that the country will not win a medal at the Olympics since they started participating.
Helsinki (1952), Melbourne (1956), Rome (1960), Mexico City (1968), Moscow (1980), Seoul (1988), and London (2012) were the other Olympics where Nigeria failed to win a single medal.
The time to prepare for Los Angeles 2028 is now.
