{"id":241146,"date":"2016-08-19T18:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=241146"},"modified":"2016-08-19T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T18:28:04","slug":"nigeria-olympic-kit-arrived-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/nigeria-olympic-kit-arrived-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Olympic kit \u2018arrived too late’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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