NSC targets 15 gold medals in Glasgow
A minimum of 15 gold medals has been set as the target for Team Nigeria athletes that will represent the country at the oncoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games
The games is scheduled to kick off on July 17 in Scotland, with the director general of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Gbenga Elegbeleye, handing down the tall order at the Abuja National Stadium, yesterday.
The commission noted that it had always been in its tradition to aim higher than what it won at the last games of every championship it has registered for, stressing that since it worked hard to improve on its record in the last African Youths Games in Botswana, it was determined to surpass its 11 gold record at the 2010 edition of the Commonwealth Games in India.
Elegbeleye who disclosed this while declaring open a workshop on anti-doping which was organized for technical directors, secretaries and coaches of the sports that would be participating at the Commonwealth Games insisted, however, the all the medals would won on a clean slate, stressing that the federations must strive hard to avoid any form of doping among its athletes.
While threatening to hold the technical directors and coaches responsible if their athletes were involved in doping, the director general who regretted that Nigeria was involved in three doping cases and lost one gold medal to the sharp practice during the last Games in India, urged the federations to emulate the selection of the Weighlifting Federation of Nigeria (WFN) which he praised for ensuring criteria that produced a lifter that was able to break two junior African records in Botswana without been involved in any form of doping.
