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Nigerian athletes in Rio only received their Olympic kits on day 13 of the Games, the BBC has learned.<\/p>\n

Most of them had finished competing by the time the outfits arrived.<\/p>\n

“We are disappointed and embarrassed. We’ve been wearing kits from the World Athletics Championships,” one athlete, requesting anonymity, told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Nigeria’s men’s football team has its own sponsored kit – but it has been hit by funding problems and players only arrived hours before their first match.<\/p>\n

The team plays for bronze on Saturday against Honduras.<\/p>\n

Africa’s most populous country has so far won no medals at Rio, with only three more days of competition left to go.<\/p>\n

The BBC spoke to two athletes who confirmed that they had only received their sports and ceremonial kits on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Bloggers have been comparing the tracksuits worn by Nigeria’s Olympics team at Rio’s opening ceremony (L) to the outfits worn for London 2012 (R)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

An unnamed Athletics Federation of Nigeria official told Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper that he had never experienced anything like this in all his years in sport.<\/p>\n

“Money meant for the Games was held tightly by [sport] ministry officials and they were just releasing money piecemeal,” the official is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

The government had budgeted 600m naira ($1.7m; \u00a31.3m) for the Olympics, the Vanguard reported in July.<\/p>\n

But payment problems appear to have dogged Nigerian Olympians.<\/p>\n

Japanese plastic surgeon, Katsuya Takasu, is donating $200,000 to the football team after hearing about its financial difficulties.<\/p>\n

The players were held up in the US city of Atlanta because of problems paying for their flight and only landed in Brazil just hours before their opening 5-4 win over Japan.<\/p>\n

Mr Takasu has also promised each player a $10,000 bonus if they win bronze.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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