It is a sad day in the Nigerian camp for several reasons. In every room in the Olympic Village or the various hotel rooms where Team Nigeria officials are staying in the city of Tokyo, there is some lamentation. To...
Eye On Tokyo 2020 (Day 12) – ‘Encounter’ with Edwin Moses – The legend who made running look easy!
I count myself lucky to have been alive to watch some of the most dramatic moments of the most memorable Olympic Games of the past half a Century, at least, yesterday. There have been several such moments during Tokyo 2020,...
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (Day 11) Golden moments – redemption, at last?
There is greater honour in participating at the Olympics than in winning. The Nigerian will tell you to go sell that to the American Marines. He will also tell you that the Olympic mantra, appropriately coined at the birth of...
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (Day 10) – Nigeria in Tokyo – Desert in an Oasis?
There is a deafening silence in the Nigerian camp here in Tokyo. The number of Nigerian athletes has dwindled significantly. How the athletes that leave or stay on in the Games Village are selected is still unclear. There are a...
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (Day 9) – Crisis upon crisis. The ‘Last Supper’ in Tokyo.
A few days ago, 'The Eye' saw smoke approaching the Nigerian camp from a distance and screamed: 'fire on the mountain'. A day later, it saw dark clouds approaching the camp again and alerted all Nigerians of an impending 'storm'....
Eye on Tokyo 2020 – The Chitty Chat with Sunday Dare.
'The Eye on Tokyo 2020' is perched on an invisible drone in the ceiling of Room XYZ, at the Grand Prince Hotel, New Takanawa, in downtown Tokyo. This is where Chief Sunday Dare, Nigeria's Minister for Youth and Sports is staying...
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (DAY 7) – Fire on the mountain.
There is fire on the mountain in Tokyo 2020. There should actually be a lot of confusion ongoing in the camps of athletes in Track and Field and Table Tennis here in Tokyo. With table tennis, why would Quadri Aruna play...
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (Day 6) – Chitty-Chat with Sunday Dare.
It finally happened. No, The Eye did not have a conversation with the Honourable Minister of Sports, Chief Sunday Dare. What happened was much more than that. You have to read this to the end to understand. It was Tuesday,...
The Eye on Tokyo 2020 (Day 5) – Different storms in Tokyo!
'The Eye' has been busy in the last 24 hours trying to track and pin down the man running Nigeria's show at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He is the Minister of Sports, Chief Sunday Dare. It is not so easy...
Eye on Tokyo 2020 (DAY 4) – Hope, still in Nigerian camp.
Last weekend Enefiok Udo Obong, the Legend, one of a handful of Nigerian athletes with an Olympic Gold medal around their necks and attached to their names, wrote a masterpiece article in his column in one of the newspapers. It...
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