140 special athleteswill storm the University of Lagos
for the 2014 Special Olympics Nigeria national
Games billed to hold between 10th and 13th of
August.
The games will feature athletes from the South West,
South East, North Central and South-South
geopolitical zones of the country.
According to a member of the board of the Special
Olympics Nigeria, Udeme Ufot who addressed the
media in Lagos yesterday, “the athletes will compet
in 7 Olympics type sports such as Athletics,
Acquatics, Badminton, Basketball, Cycling
(demonstrative), Table Tennis and Unified Football.”
Outstanding performers will be selected to represent
Nigeria at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer
Games in Los Angeles, United States. He said,
“Special Olympics brings together equal number of
athletes with intellectual disabilities and their peers
without intellectual disabilities on the same team for
training and competition.”
The games are being supported by numerous
sponsors including Coca Cola, MTN, GTBank, Union
Bank among others.
Although Ufot said Special Olympics Nigeria would
have loved to host the global fiesta sometime, that
can only be possible when government shows
seriousness in developing the necessary
infrastructure.
“That would have been a fantastic idea, but I must
say that we are not ready yet.” The Lagos state
government pledged its support.
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