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Nigeria: London Olympics - When Luck Deserted Team Nigeria

Reported by allAfrica.com on Saturday, 18 August 2012 (on August 18, 2012)
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[Daily Trust]Lagos -Shortly before Team Nigeria departed for the just concluded London Olympic, expectations were thick enough to be cut with a knife. The National Sports Commission, NSC, and the Nigerian Olympic Committee, NOC, had made Nigerians to believe that Team Nigeria would improve on its previous outings.

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