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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.

— Falilat Ogunkoya

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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.

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