INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

SPORT APPEARANCE GOLD SILVER BRONZE
Athletics 13 1 4 4
Boxing 10 - 3 3
Weightlifting 6 - 1 -
Football 5 1 - -
Wrestling 6 - - -
Table Tennis 4 - - -
Judo 4 - - -
Tennis 3 - - -
Swimming 3 - - -
Handball 1 - - -
Recently, the Nigeria female basketball team qualified for the
2004 Athens Olympic Games. One wonders why it took the
Basketball Federation so long a time to qualify for the Olympics after
having been founded in 1964.
Duru (2001) opined that there is nothing basically wrong with
Nigeria or its athletes, but our sports problems lie in the unwillingness
or inability of the sports administrators/managers to rise up to their
responsibilities. He further stated that the habits of our sports
administrators cripple our aspirations and inhibit our chances of
becoming a great sporting nation.
The winning of a gold medal at the Olympics and the
improvement of individual performances depend on a multitude of
factors in operation before, during and after the event. One of such
factors is managerial competence. Sports succeed or fail in direct
proportion to the appropriate decisions and actions of those who are
responsible for managing them.
FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR UNSATISFACTORY
PERFORMANCE
STRUCTURAL, MANAGERIAL AND FINANCIAL
PROBLEMS
STRUCTURAL PROBLEM. Those who had been at the helms of
affairs in the Sports Ministry had been non-professionals. In support
of this view Onifade (2000) opined that since inception of the Federal
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