Director General, National Commission (NSC), Chief Bukola Olopade has expressed satisfaction with the quality of play in the male handball event of the ongoing 22nd National Sports Festival tagged " Ogun 2024Gateway Games'' holding in Abeokuta and other major towns across the state
Olopade was speaking with newsmen after watching Team- Lagos beating their hard-fighting opponents from Sokoto 25-24 in the men's handball event at the Alake Sports Complex, Ijeja ,Abeokuta on Monday.
The Director General was highly impressed with the quality of play displayed by the players from both teams and standard of officiating by game officials , saying the standard of the game had improved tremendously.
"The players displayed integrity and maturity while they also exhibited the spirit of fair play.
" The expectations of the festival is already high, a world class opening ceremony that has become a reference point to every athletes and spectators.
" We have very good facilities across board ; We expect natural talents to excel .
" For me I want to see new states emerging the new and reference point rather than the old states, for example , today is day two and I still haven't seen Delta and Edo on the medals table.
' That doesn't mean I don't wish Delta and Edo well but I just wish to see new states, Cross River is leading the table at the moment,"
Olopade disclosed that all the 36 states including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja are all on ground for the tournament, saying that Benue was the last state to arrive.
In other matches decided on Day-one of the male handball event , YraNiger defeated Kano by the same margin 25-24
while Team-Edo gained walked over Enugu
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