Athletics in Nigeria can be better - Enefiok Udo-Obong

Two-time Olympic medalist, Enefiok Udo-Obong has said that the current state of Nigeria's athletics could be better.

Speaking in an exclusive chat with Brila.net, Udo-Obong said domestic athletes have long lived under the shadow of their foreign counterparts.

“Athletes have to change their mentality,”

“It’s a mental mindset and you have to know that you have what it takes and you have a lot of the things the brands want. Everything that is soft skills that an athlete learns – goal setting, targets, strategies, a mindset of winning; an athlete just needs to change those soft skills into saleable skills in a corporate world.

“Once you see an athlete like that and even, he’s still performing, companies can identify their own values in such an athlete and they can sponsor such athletes.”

“[Athletics in Nigeria] could be better; it’s not developing as fast as it should. The administrators are not developing as fast as the athletes are developing but generally, we have to work hard for a belief that sooner or later we would get it right.”