United States-based Performance Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Victor Okorie, will lead the last two track and field athletes to Team Nigeria’s Germany training camp tomorrow, as the country intensifies its preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Team Nigeria moved into the training camp in Germany, last week, but the duo of Ella Onojuvwevwo and Tima Godbless are yet to join the squad.
Okorie told The Guardian, yesterday, that he would join the team’s training camp tomorrow alongside the two athletes. Okorie, a silver medallist at the 2003 African Games in Abuja, hinted that he would be coming to the Germany training camp to help build the athletes’ psychology in preparation for the Olympics.
“There is a difference between a team’s psychologist and building psychology on athletes ahead of major championships. There will be no conflict of interest as far as I am concerned as the Performance Director of AFN. We all have different roles to play and we are working towards achieving one main goal in Paris.”
At the Oregon 2021 World Championships, Okorie led Nigeria to achieve its biggest performance ever, with the duo of Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume grabbing gold and silver medals respectively.
The arrival of quartermiler, Onojuvwevwo, and sprinter Godbless is expected to complete the number of track and field stars in the camp.
While Onojuvwevwo qualified for the Paris Games by beating the Olympic qualifying standard of 51.00secs and also breaking her school’s 27-year record, the fastest by any Nigerian woman since Falilat Ogunkoya’s 50.50secs semifinal run at the 2001 IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Canada, Godbless secured an automatic qualification for the women’s 200m event after running 22.56s (+1.2) at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene.
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