16th November, 2012
Team Kogi have vowed to surpass the record of their last outing at the Garden Games National Sports Festival held in Port Harcourt, River State in this year’s festival in Lagos.
The national tournament holds from 27 November- 9 December in Lagos and the Kogi Director of Sports, Joel Abu, said the state is preparing to win more than seven gold medals this year.
Abu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that though the state did not win any gold medal at the last edition, it has prepared well to achieve its target at Eko 2012 by winning seven gold medals.
“We, the officials and athletes, are in high spirits in all our camps and we will do our best to excel at the forthcoming festival.
“I want to assure the people of Kogi that the athletes are training hard to improve on their record this time around. We will compete very well to appear on the medals table,’’ he said, The director said the state contingent would arrive in Lagos for the fiesta on Nov. 26 with 100 athletes, 35 technical officials and 30 delegates. He said that the state would participate in 12 sports comprising one team event and 11 individual sports.
According to him, the team sport is female handball, while the individual ones includes badminton, boxing, weightlifting, kickboxing, judo, scrabble, Para-table tennis, Ayo and others.