Team Lagos Hopes To Dominate Athletics

Team Lagos’ athletes have restated their resolve to go all out to win
the bulk of the events at the forthcoming 18th National Sports Festival (NFS).

They told newsmen in separate interviews that their
confidence stemmed from the series of quality training programmes they have
been exposed to.

Oghene Eferobor, a bronze medalist at the 2011 Port
Harcourt NSF, said that she was prepared to win the gold medal this time
around.

“I won a bronze medal in hurdles at the last edition of
the NSF in Port Harcourt, and now I intend to improve on my performance by
going for gold.

“I am confident of attaining this feat, because my pace
and bound have improved, judging from my performance in recent competitions.

“I participated in the All African Games, the West
African University Games and the Lagos Tertiary Games; and I won medals in all
of them. So I am prepared for gold,” she said.

Matthew Egbeogu said that he was looking forward to
setting a new record in the discus event at the NSF; stating that his throw had
greatly improved from his previous ones.

“Although I was a bronze medalist at the Port Harcourt
NSF, but my exposure there revealed the areas I needed to improve upon.

“I won’t tell you how I have worked on my weaknesses,
but would just urge you to keep your fingers crossed at the festival; because a
new record might emerge,” he said.

The Lagos State Athletics Coach, Michael Obisesan,  said that they had left-no-stone-unturned in
terms of training drills during their preparation for the festival.

Obisesan assured that the bulk
of the medals would be won by Team Lagos, considering the level of hard work
they had put into preparation for it.