Nigeria Withdraws Team From Youth Olympics Over EbolaDiscrimination

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Nigeria Withdraws Team From Youth Olympics Over EbolaDiscrimination

Nigerian athletes and officials to the on-going 2014 Youth
Olympics in Nanjing, China. have been directed to leave and come
home after the country pulled out of the competition on
Wednesday following discrimination against its athletes.
The athletes were quarantined, isolated and barred from training
alongside other athletes of the World since arriving the
competition venue.
In a statement signed Wednesday by the Director General of the
National Sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye Nigeria
protested to the organisers that the treatment to the Nigerian
athletes were inhuman.
The decision to withdraw Team Nigeria from the Games was taken
after a meeting with Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo,
Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, President, Engr Sani M.
Ndanusa and the Director General of the National sports
Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye.
The Youth Olympics is scheduled to hold from August 16 to August
18, and team Nigeria were to participate in three sports – Athletics,
Wrestling and Beach Vollleyball, with twelve athletes.