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Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, the chapter of the IMO State has implied the governor of the State IMO, the distinct senator Hope Uzodimma for the immediate liberation of funds intended for the 2024 National Sports Festival Tagged Gateway 2024 National Sports Festival (NSF).
The association rose from his monthly congress to appeal to the governor of the soul that the funds must be made available to state athletes and their officials for them to conclude their preparations and to ensure that the eastern heart is not excluded from this national competition aimed at discovering tomorrow’s stars.
Swan, IMO in a statement of the press jointly signed by the president, Cosmos Chukwuemeka and the secretary, Tunde Liadi invited the governor Uzodinma to facilitate the immediate release of the funds necessary for both athletes and accompanying officials so that the IMO state is not left out of the Mini -olimpic games of Nigeria.
State sports writers look with the maximum dismay for the quality of the sports infrastructures available for state athletes at Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri and they believed that a lot should be done to give the building a new lifting as well as having the grassy carpet of the stadium.
The Association praises the athletes of the soul and their officials for having challenged the chances of using the structures available to them to prepare at the National Sports Festival where they can be exposed to more quality sports and equipment, but the body is mentioning the state government to move rapidly quickly to ensure that the funds are released for them to honor their state.
The performances of the IMO team have reduced in the last three national sports festivals in which the team ranked 18th at NSF Abuja 2018 with only 5 gold, 3 silver and 13 bronze medals for a total of 21 medals. It was no different from Edo 2020 NSF in which the state closed 10 ° on the final medals table with 10 gold, 13 silver and 26 bronze medals with 49 medals.
The representatives of the IMO team ended in eleventh place won 12 gold medals, 8 silver and 25 bronze at the last national sports festival held in the state of the delta in 2023 for a total of 45 medals. The location was a step lower than ENSF Edo 2020
Gauging Team Imo with inadequate preparations and unavailability of funds, it will be difficult for representatives of the state to perform until expectations in the today 2024 National Sports Festival if nothing is done immediately.
Recently IMO SWAN has expressed its dissatisfaction with the results of the athletes of the soul at the inaugural edition of the Niger Delta Sports Festival held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State in which the State closed at the eighth out of 9 states in competition and the association is concerned that the same trend can happen in the same state of Ogun if nothing is done to remedy the situation.
The National Sports Festival takes two years to plan and IMO SWAN has it that the government takes the problem of the first preparations seriously so that athletes have more time to prepare for the next competitions that it is NSF or the National Youth Games which will be hosted later in the year. This will allow them to win more laurels for the state of what they would have won without adequate preparations.
The Association states that sport is in high intensity of capital and that, if correctly invested, the premiums will not only be informed of the medals forgiving, but in other various forms of remunerations if correctly coordinated.
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