Team Rivers Clears Cycling Gold Medalsa

The efforts and time put in by Team Rivers Cycling team has fetched the state nine gold medals.

Chief coach of Team Rivers Cycling team, Coach Emmanuel Onasanya, maintained that the 6th Garden City Cycling competition and Tour D Niger Delta in which Team Rivers and cyclists from other ten states participated is responsible for the state’s present medal position as Team Rivers continues to sweep available gold medals at the cycling event.

The happy coach said, “I feel great in this competition because I already have seven gold medals. Infact it is nine now but they have not declared it officially, the problem is that they are still trying to determine who took the second and third position in the event. It does not affect us, we already have the gold and it makes what we have nine and I still hope to get more.”

“If you remember in April, we went to Calabar on Tour the Niger Delta and I said it that this tour will help my boys because it will have a lot of impact on their legs and it is reflecting in this festival and we are seeing the results. It has never happened before that either a hosting state or a particular state is just taking the gold medals consecutively. Seven at a time and out of the seven gold,  no one crossed them, they are just winning the gold clearly. And sometimes gold  and silver like in the 500meters and one kilometer pursuit.”

He marveld at the achievement of his team and hopes more medals are won by the state.

“It marvels me, am amazed. Currently we have seven gold, six silver and one bronze. The other two, we’ve counted it to the one we have already and its about nine now. Am looking forward to five more gold to make it fourteen of the seventeen that we are fighting for.

We have really distinguished ourselves among the riders and we are happy about that.”