Team Nigeria’s Olympics-bound wrestlers set to camp in Germany

By Oluwaseyi Oduneye-Ogunwomoju

The Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) on Wednesday said the overseas camping stage of its wrestlers’ preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics will begin on Monday in Saarbrucken, Germany.

Daniel Igali, the President of NWF, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan that this would follow the ongoing local camping in Yenagoa which will end on Sunday.

“Preparations for the Olympics are in top gear. We’ve been in camp in Yenagoa for over two weeks, and training so far is going so well.

“We have five Olympics-bound athletes and three training partners each in camp.

“The lone male among the Olympics-bound wrestlers is not in camp yet, and that is Ashton Mutuwa who is based in the U.S.

“Already, Adekuoroye who is also based in the U.S. has now joined us. Mutuwa will join the overseas camp because of his peculiar situation.

“He has very good training partners in the US, and we want that to continue because we’re quite happy with his training situation there, which we are monitoring very closely,” he said.

Igali assured that Mutuwa was being monitored closely and so far the NWF was impressed with what he was doing.

He also said Adekuoroye has done a lot of training in respect of pace and strengthening.

“We believe that she has good training partners here in Nigeria that will really get her fortified for the Olympics, because we have a lot of hope on her at this Olympics,” the NWF President said.