"Our Focus Is To Qualify Shooting Sports In The Next Olympics" - Federation President
By Niyi Busari
President, Shooting Sports Federation, Olatunji Bamidele has said the Federation fixed their focus on making sure that Shooting Sports pick one of the ticket to represent Nigeria in the next Olympic in France, BSN sports.com.ng can report.
Ayoade made this known on Sunday while addressing the media during the ongoing National Youth Games at the University of Ilorin.
"Our main focus is to make sure that Nigeria is represented in Shooting Sports in the next Olympic."
He added that the Federation will also do its best to develop the game at the grassroots level adding that infrastructure development across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria will make the dream of grassroots development possible.
"We have agreed as a board that the first thing is to develop shooting ranges across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. This is to develop the game at the grassroots. But we have looked at Kano and Rivers state. These two (ranges) would be done within the next two months.
According to him, this will set the federation on the right track for the development of the game at the grassroots.
"We chose Rivers state so that we can develop the game in the South as those states close to Rivers will make use of the range during games. This will also enable states in.the North did same by going to Kano range for games and discovery of talents.
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