Team Lagos tops medal table as 9th National Youth Games enters final stretch

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Team Lagos are firmly connected people to look wide winners of the ongoing 9th National Youth Games (NYG) successful Asaba, Delta State, aft maintaining their pb astatine the apical of the medals array arsenic the contention enters its last phase.

At the adjacent of Day Six connected Wednesday, Team Lagos had amassed a full of 69 medals — 35 gold, 18 silver, and 16 bronze — staying up of nearest challengers, Team Edo and hosts, Team Delta. Edo presently beryllium 2nd with 46 medals (23 gold, 9 silver, and 14 bronze), portion defending champions Delta inhabit 3rd spot with 51 medals (14 gold, 17 silver, and 20 bronze).

With conscionable a fewer days near and respective finals inactive to beryllium decided, Team Lagos stay resolute successful their propulsion to topple perennial winners Team Delta and reclaim nationalist supremacy astatine the younker sports festival.

A large boost to Lagos’ dominance has travel from the state’s outstanding show successful swimming, wherever the athletes delivered a stunning instrumentality of 19 golden and 4 metallic medals.

The swimmers’ exploits person inspired different athletes crossed aggregate disciplines, resulting successful accordant medal wins and appearances successful finals.

Speaking aft the medal presumption to the victorious swimmers, the Director General of the Lagos State Sports Commission, Lekan Fatodu, hailed their singular performance, describing it arsenic impervious of the state’s increasing concern successful grassroots sports development.

“There’s nary amended mode to complaint the show than what we person seen successful presumption of the aggregate golden medals the swimmers person earned. It has really reaffirmed the presumption of Lagos State arsenic the person successful swimming successful Nigeria. It has besides further proven that currently, Lagos swimmers nether 15 athletes are really the champion crossed Nigeria and we volition proceed to bash better.

“It’s really a testament, validation of the resources, enactment and infrastructural betterment that Mr Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu is doing. The manifestation of that concern is what we person seen successful the performances of our athletes and the outcomes successful presumption of aggregate golden medals that Lagos athletes person gotten astatine this event,” said Mr Fatodu.

Elsewhere, Team Lagos besides shone successful gymnastics, collecting 9 medals — 4 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze — crossed antithetic disciplines arsenic the lawsuit concluded earlier successful the week.

Wednesday brought adjacent much glory for the authorities arsenic the boys’ volleyball squad clinched gold, portion the girls’ squad are acceptable to contention their ain last connected Thursday. In addition, the pistillate hockey squad volition conflict for the rubric connected Thursday astatine the Hockey Pitch successful Okpanam.

The pistillate shot squad besides booked their spot successful the last aft edging past Ogun State 2-1 successful the semifinals, acknowledgment to a superb brace from Kemi Adegbuyi.