Sport Impact Africa 2022: Olumide Oyedeji Enjoins Government, Sports Stakeholders To Embrace School Sports In Bid To Curb Age Cheat… Build Healthy Competition On Global Stage

Former NBA star and D’Tigers captain, Olumide Oyedeji talking on the simply concluded two days Sport Impression Africa Seminar has lent his voice in enjoining authorities, sports activities stakeholders to develop faculty sports activities in order to catch the athletes early and develop them in bid to curb age cheat in Nigeria sports activities and permit wholesome competitors on the worldwide stage.

In accordance with him, we don’t begin early sufficient, ‘most occasions, you’ll uncover that we’re beginning on the age of 13, fourteen and you realize prefer it was as soon as stated, should you don’t begin carrying racket on the age of three, don’t count on your self at any grandslam.’

‘The identical factor applies to each different sports activities, we don’t begin early and that’s why earlier than we are able to choose, the one means is to go and look for many who have competed at that degree of competitors,’ he defined.

“My boy who performs basketball has began early sufficient, somebody who performs 4 video games in a day, in a month, twenty 4 video games and he’s not even as much as 12 but. Taking a look at each different gamers, you’ll uncover that a few of them are simply beginning to see tools on the age of fifteen. Even at that degree, they haven’t having the ability to compete in some ranges of competitors.’

Talking additional, Olumide reveals that this isn’t simply on the athletes alone, ‘it additionally occurs to the footballers, we don’t begin early sufficient and that’s why earlier than we are able to compete with the remainder of the world, we have to do one thing about it and that’s why I’m calling on each stakeholders and each mum or dad that we have to return sport to secondary faculty.’

‘College Sport wants to come back alive, it developed a whole lot of athletes for Nigeria after which we competed so much. Inter home sports activities, invitational relay however now, there’s no amenities for such and that’s why lots of people are beginning late, we should work on this,’ he emphatically enjoined.

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