The president of Nigeria Paralympics Committee, Ruel Ishaku has served a strong assurance that the country’s special sports athletes will win a lot of medals at this year’s Games in Tokyo, Japan, because they prepared adequately for their various events, megasportsarena.com reports.
While bearing his chest that Team Nigeria will achieve several podium spots at the Games that began on Wednesday in Tokyo, Ishaku went on to affirm that Nigerians can be rest assured that the performances by their representatives will make everyone proud.
He pointed out hat the targets set for the athletes personally and collectively are gold medals in each of their respective events, such that Nigeria will end up bettering its best performance so far, which was achieved at Rio 2016.
Ishaku added: “I don’t have any doubt about my athletes because they are in high spirits. They have prepared very well. Now they are in Tokyo for the usual results.
“We attended the last Paralympics with a good number of athletes which was about 14. In Tokyo, we have only nine. However, by the special grace of God, we would make it.
“Most times, people talk of medals but we are looking beyond medals to world records. Our emphasis is on world records because once you set a world record, you are an automatic gold medalist.
“Actually the Sports Minister is doing great things for Nigerian para-athletes. We can’t thank him enough. He has improved our allowances and winning bonuses.
“It is a morale booster for all the athletes and I have no iota of doubt in my mind that they will reciprocate this kind gesture. They will compete with all seriousness to get the cash promised them by the Sports Minister.”
