Sports
Absence of Phychologist causes of Team Nigeria’s failure At 2024 Paris Olympics-SPAN
Joel Ajayi
The dismal performance of Team Nigeria at the Paris 2024 Olympics has been attributed to the absence of Phychologists in the team.
Speaking at the Annual National Conference of the Sports Phychologists Association of Nigeria, SPAN held at the National Institute in Lagos on Wednesday, Professor Clement Fasan who presented the lead paper said Nigeria would have fared better if Team Nigeria had been attached with Sports Phychologist.
Speaking under the theme: Optimizing Athletes Performance and Wellbeing: Challenges for Sports Stakeholders in the 21st Century, Professor Fasan said ” We canot talk of optimizing athletes performance without their well-being or welfare. Athletes are fragile and have expiring dates.
They are susceptible to injury which can be vital and cut short their career. We must develop programs and incentive methodologies to cater for their well-being and welfare. Without the help of Phychologist, the athletes canot achieve much”
Speaking in the same vein, Professor Seun Omotayo said” Both sucess and failure needs to be managed.
Tobi Amusan failure was due to lack of Phychological management. SPorts is scientific without which talent and technique would not count for much.Coaching is an integral part of coaching philosophy.
In his own remarks, Director-General National Institute for sports Professor Olawale Moronkola said the event is coming at a most auspicious time when Nigerian Sports is under scrutiny due to the poor performance in Paris.
The theme is timely in the quest of all stakeholders in sports industry to propel better the fortunes of sports in all ramifications on Nigeria for better podium success in national and international competitions.
We must take advantage of this event to correct alot of things that has gone wrong in our sports.
Sports
Igoche Mark Announces Burial of Beloved Mother, 82
Joel Ajayi
Renowned basketball promoter and initiator of the Mark D’ Ball Basketball Championship, Mr. Igoche Mark, will on Friday, November 27, 2026, lay his mother, Mrs. Veronica Oyiba Mark, to rest in Otukpo, Benue State.
Mrs. Mark, fondly known as _En’Igoche_, died at the age of 82. She was born in 1944.
According to the burial arrangements released by the family, the funeral rites will begin on Wednesday, November 25, with a service of songs at her residence, No. 4 Enugu Road, Eupi, Otukpo, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
On Thursday, November 26, a commemoration service will hold at St. Francis Catholic Cathedral, Otukpo, between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. This will be followed by an all-night wake-keep at Pa Obodumu Ooche Compound, Asa 2, from 8:00 p.m.
The funeral proper will take place on Friday, November 27. A requiem Mass is scheduled for 12 noon at St. Francis Catholic Cathedral, Otukpo.
Interment will follow immediately at the family Compound.
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