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Nigerian
athletes and officials to the on-going 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing,
China have been directed to leave and come home after the country pulled
out of the competition on Wednesday following discrimination against
its athletes.The athletes were quarantined, isolated and barred from
training alongside other athletes of the World since arriving the
competition venue.
In a
statement signed Wednesday by the Director General of the National
Sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye Nigeria protested to the
organisers that the treatment to the Nigerian athletes were inhuman.
The decision
to withdraw Team Nigeria from the Games was taken after a meeting with
Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo, Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC,
President, Engr Sani M. Ndanusa and the Director General of the National
sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye.
The Youth
Olympics is scheduled to hold from August 16 to August 18, and team
Nigeria were to participate in three sports – Athletics, Wrestling and
Beach Vollleyball, with twelve athletes.
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