Olympics: I can’t apply new strategies with new anthem–Adekuoroye

Nigerian girls’s freestyle wrestler Odunayo Adekuoroye has decried the burden of studying the brand new nationwide anthem and practising new strategies whereas making ready for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

The 30-year-old shared her ideas on Instagram on Saturday, becoming a member of the elongating checklist of Nigerian athletes who’ve expressed reservations in regards to the reintroduction of the outdated anthem that was discarded for the second time lengthy earlier than they had been born.

“I no fit dey practice new techniques still dey learn new anthem,” said the newlywed, who grew to become the nation’s first grappler to qualify for the Olympic Games after she defeated Turkey’s Elvira Kamaloglu 9-5 to win the bronze medal in girls’s 57 kg on the World Championships in Belgrade.

Paris 2024 shall be Adekuoroye’s third Olympics, and she or he shall be gunning for the elusive medal after disappointments in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, being defeated by Sweden’s Sofia Mattsson within the quarterfinal on the former.

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