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born 1968
Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku (born 5 December 1968) is a Nigerian former track and field athlete who holds the distinction of becoming the first Nigerian to win an individual track and field medal at the Olympic games.
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At that level, you don’t wait for anybody, it is your career and you have to work very hard to achieve your goals.
The responsibilities of impacting the right attitude and adequate training can only be achieved by professionals in the industry.
My goal has always been to help our athletics a blend of the old and new by encouraging them.
I am very passionate about the plight of the less-privileged and I wish that I could set up a foundation to cater for their needs.
For me, each race was like a hurdle that I must jump over.
When you look at the idea behind the race, it is meant to promote peace. And so any thing that will bring peace to this country must be supported.
When you are a top athlete in the world, if you marry the person on the track with you, whenever you travel, both of you can go together since you do the same thing.
Motherhood is such an indescribable feeling; it’s the best thing in the world. I think all women should go through the experience to understand what I’m saying.
Government is spending so much on football. Though I am not against that, but it’s advisable for it to shift a little and show more interest in other sports, such as track and field.
My parents bought me my first running shoe , My coach John Afuwape gave my first Spike shoe in 1980.
When the ovation is loudest, it’s not when people start saying what else do you want. Because sometimes it’s better to give the young ones a chance to come up, it’s not that some people don’t want to leave, it’s because Nigeria don’t appreciate their own.
There are things that matter in sports. You may train an athlete for months and you think that the athlete is good enough to win a medal but on the day it matters the athlete gets into an overwhelming stadium with 80,000 spectators shouting and the athlete freezes.
Some of the athletes of this generation need to be ready to work harder and not to be telling their coaches that the work load is too much. They must realise that only hard work, determination and discipline can take them to the top of their careers.
Sometimes you look back in life despite what you have achieved and wished you did some things better, I wish I had listened to my coach to run 400hurdle and put more effort in 200m and 800m.
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