Agency Report

Nigeria’s uninspiring start to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games continued Monday as her badminton men’s doubles representation at the games in Japan, Godwin Olofua and Anuoluwapo Opeyori have lost their second consecutive game of the group stage to Denmark.

In similar straight set loss but with a more improvement on court performance this time, the duo succumbed to a straight set defeat 21-7, 21-10 to Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Aders Skaarup Rasmussen who are world number 12 in the doubles ranking.

Half of the Nigerians men’s doubles pair, Godwin Olofua in an exclusive interview with Nigeria Info says he sacrificed is education just to make the Olympic Games

Meanwhile, Nigeria and Africa’s representative in the women’s singles event, Dorcas Adesokan has also lost her first match in Tokyo in a straight set defeat to Spain’s Clara Azunmendi early Monday morning.

On safety at the Games village as regards Covid-19, Anuoluwapo Opeyori, Nigeria’s number badminton player says the athletes’ village has been safe so far.

Dorcas next faces South Korea’s AN Seyoung in her second group game.

Anu and Godwin who are ranked 50th in the doubles world ranking are now due to face Russia’s Ivan Sozonov and Vladimir Ivanov on Tuesday for their final group game.