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What we need to do now is to reduce the pressure on them, get the right training partners and then get the right training programmes to be ready for any championship.” Igali said each of the wrestlers would be given the chance to feature in at least 12 matches before the Olympics, adding, “we will be having two mini tournaments in Bayelsa and thereafter, they will have a few weeks break.
Igali said his federation has lightened the wrestlers’ burden on the to ensure that they are not under too much pressure, adding, “as an Olympic champion I know what it means to be at the Games, especially now that the Olympics is about a month away.
While Adekuoroye made a mincemeat of every opponent she met to win the gold medal in her weight class, including the current Olympic champion, Helen Maroulis and the current silver medalist from Russia, Valeria Zholobova before,” he said.
“Oborududu wrestled extremely well and lost in the final to someone I think is one of the top wrestlers in the world, France’s Koumba Larroque..
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