C’Wealth Games: We Won As A Nation – Oborududu

The overwhelming performance of the women in Team Nigeria to the recently ended Commonwealth Games in Birmingham has continued to dominate the front burner in the country as many pundits believe that the future of Nigeria’s sports belongs to the women.
The women in Team Nigeria won all 12 gold medals won by the country in which Nigeria recorded 12 gold, 9 silver and 14 bronze medals for a total of 35 medals won at the Games.
But reacting to the dominance of women over their men counterparts, the Tokyo 2021 Silver medalist and Two-time Commonwealth Games gold medalists in the women 68kg weight class wrestling, Blessing Oborududu, has this to say:
“Maybe I could say the women are more focused than the men and whatever a woman wants, she puts all her focus on it, goes for it and gets it done. (laughing)”, adding that, “maybe the men have more responsibilities that share their attention, than the women.
However, male wrestling or sports are quite a tough one than that of the women. Although, I can’t really speak for them or say what the cause is. But what’s important at this point is our win as a nation, irrespective of the gender. We won as a team”, she declared.
The ever smiling wrestler said, hard work, dedication and passion for wrestling, and I mean this literally and in every sense of those words, have been her driving force in her sport.
“Also, I think it has a lot to do with where we are coming from (our stories) as that drives us for success no matter the cost.  When a woman has resolved to win, brace yourself because she will”, said the Nigeria’s most successful women wrestler.