Nigeria's world indoors 60 meters champion Olusoji Fasuba has advocated to the country sports governing body, National Sports Commission (NSC), for the camping of the country's athletes abroad so as to intensify preparations of Nigerian athletes for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, reported the Lagos-based Guardian Newspaper.
Fasuba said some of his African partners had been in camp in Madrid, Spain since January this year, stressing that camping the Nigerian athletes abroad would be the best thing because there was the possibility that they would be affected by malaria fever from mosquitos' bites if camped in Nigeria.
"If we camp in Europe, the problem of malaria would be eradicated. I will suggest to the National Sports Commission that we should be camped in Athens, Greece which has the same climatic condition like Beijing, which would be very hot in August. In this way, it would enable us cope with the hot weather in China when the Games proper commence," he said.
The Africa's fastest man, vowed to make Nigeria proud at the Olympics.
"When I was going to Valencia for the World Indoors Championship, not many people believed in me. But I went there with the belief that I was going to win and I won," he said.
Meanwhile relays and jumps trials for the country athletes will hold in Abuja on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at the Abuja international stadium.
(Xinhua News Agency April 17, 2008)