Athletics in Nigeria can be better, says Enefiok Udo-Obong

Two-time Olympics medalist Enefiok Udo-Obong has stated
that Nigerian athletics can be better than the current state of
development. In a chat with  brila.net, he stated that
domestic athletes have long lived under the Shadow of their foreign
counterparts. “Athletes have to change their mentality,” “It’s a
mental mindset and you have to know that you have what it takes and
you have a lot of the things the brands want. Everything that is
soft skills that an athlete learns – goal setting, targets,
strategies, a mindset of winning; an athlete just needs to change
those soft skills into saleable skills in a corporate world. “Once
you see an athlete like that and even, he’s still performing,
companies can identify their own values in such an athlete and they
can sponsor such athletes.” (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle
|| []).push({}); The Captain of Team Nigeria to the 2002
Commonwealth Games in Manchester also believes that domestic
athletes are being held back by administrators who he thinks aren’t
embracing modern methods quick enough to match the ambition shown
by the athletes.
“[Athletics in Nigeria] could be better; it’s not developing as
fast as it should. The administrators are not developing as fast as
the athletes are developing but generally, we have to work hard for
a belief that sooner or later we would get it right.”

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