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Coordinator Tasks Secondary, Tertiary Institutions On Sport

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The National Coordinator and Technical Director, Race walking event, Samuel Babatoba yesterday urged secondary schools games masters and sports officials in institutions of higher learning to embrace the sport.
Babatoba, a certified Level Four Coach in race walk, told newsmen in Lagos that athletes should be given the opportunity to feature in the event.
The coordinator said that race walk would give athletes better chance of exhibiting their skills, noting that those from the northern part of Nigeria had better body mass for the walk.
According to him Nigerian athletes should  create the passion for long distance events, especially race walk.
“Some of them see it as a new event but it is old; they have better chance with the race.
“People are familiar with sprints and we have seen how far we can go; if any of them can embrace race walk, it could be a way for them to excel in sport.
“And it is only when they try that they will discover their ability. I implore them to please come, develop interest, have the passion and let us see the beauty of the race.
“The race, to some people, is a normal way that you can walk anyhow for fitness; but to me, it is a competitive walk that has techniques,’’ Babatoba said.
Babatoba said that it was easier for marathoners to embrace race walk, adding that the techniques would be the first thing to be mastered.
The coordinator, who demonstrated the event at the 2017 Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA) Games in Makurdi, said he was happy with the association’s decision to feature the event at the next edition.
“I am happy that some athletes who participated in NUGA Games have been showing interest that they want to try the event,’’ he said.
Tidesports source gathered that race walking is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics.
Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times.
This is assessed by race judges and it is typically held on either roads or on running tracks, common distances vary from 3,000m up to 100 km.

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Bundesliga: Kane Scores Hat-Trick As Bayern End Winless Streak

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England captain Harry Kane netted a hat-trick to guide Bayern Munich to an impressive victory against Stuttgart.
Kane’s goals, plus one from Kingsley Coman, helped Bayern end a three-game winless run in all competitions.
They faced a tough task against a Stuttgart side who sat back and limited their chances, leading Vincent Kompany’s side to enter the break frustrated and with the deadlock unbroken.
Bayern eventually found a way past Stuttgart’s steely defence when Kane drilled a low effort into the bottom corner from around 30 yards out after Joshua Kimmich overturned possession.

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Dosu Survives Ghastly Accident, Again

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Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Dosu Joseph, is full of thanks to God after he miraculously survived another life-threatening automobile accident recent at Kara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, where a heavy-duty truck ran into his SUV.
Narrating his ordeal, the 51-year-old, who guided Nigeria to gold in the Men’s Football Tournament of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, broke the news in a statement on his social media handles on Friday.
“To God be the glory, another death escaped by Grace and Mercy of God. Me and my friend SM were at Enyo Filling Station after Ojodu Berger bus stop to get fuel on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, around 6 p.m. when this MACK truck fully loaded with iron, with registration number LND 470 XX, left the road and crushed my car beyond repairs. Thank God for life,” he stated.
This is the second time the soft-spoken club proprietor will cheat death by a whisker, having been involved in an accident in 1997 that ended his career at 23 and left his spinal cord in bad shape.
He helped Julius Berger win the Nigeria FA Cup in November 1997 shortly a memorable Olympic outing by keeping a clean sheet in the finals against Katsina United. The following year, he was involved in the auto along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, which not only cut his career short but also left him almost paralysed, ending his spell at Serie A club Reggiana.
The former Nigeria international, who also kept goal for Julius Berger FC, said the case has been reported to Isheri Police Station, Ogun State, where the driver is currently detained and the truck also seized.
According to him, the owner of the truck said he can’t fix the badly damaged SUV until after a year.

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Sports Development Going Down In Nigeria – Ex-International

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Ex – Super Eagles of Nigeria, Okwuchukwu Waobikeze has observed that sports development in Nigeria is going down.
According to him, grassroots sports is very important, without it, the administrators cannot get it right. So everybody should key into grassroots sports development, he said.
Waobikeze said this last Wednesday in an interview with sports journalists shortly after the Port Harcourt All Stars Independence football festival (OCTOBERFEST) at the Port Harcourt club, Rivers State.
He explained that for sports administrators to get it right, grassroots development is key. “They should be organising competition at the grassroots level to fish out the young ones for different sporting activities.
“Grassroots sports is very important so the administrators have to go back to the grassroots.
” Sports Development in Nigeria is going down we need to go back to the basics.
“Look at the just concluded Paris Olympics, Nigeria did not win any medal.
” Our football team did not even qualify for the Olympics. We are going down.
” If they should go back to the grassroots, they will get young ones in the games and talents will be developed.
” I started from school games, to youth games before playing for the national team. Now everybody wants to fly board to play professional football and a lot do not know the basics of the game.
” A lot of people did not know the little things about the game, they just want to play. It is not done so,” Waobikeze stated.

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