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Why Nigerian Cyclist Borrowed Bicycle At The Olympics – Sports Minister Explains

Demilade Bakare
Demilade Bakare
Published: June 15, 2025
Last updated: June 15, 2025
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Why Nigerian Cyclist Borrowed Bicycle At The Olympics - Sports Minister Explains | Daily Report Nigeria
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The Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh, responded to the series of backlash received from Nigerians after a cyclist waa seen borrowing a bicycle at the Olympics.

Daily Report Nigeria recalls a Nigerian cyclist, Ese Ukpeseraye browsing a bicycle from hee German opponent as agw compete in the 2024 Olympics in Paris on Wednesday, August 7.

Ese completed the Keirin and Sprint cycling event on Wednesday, but couldn’t advance to the next stage after finishing sixth. Read here.

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Reacting to this, the Minister noted that Ese wasn’t meant to compete in the competition, adding that there was only an option for her after as a country got disqualified, leading to an opening foe her.

And it would not have been possible to get her one immediately as it takes months to get it delivered after making an order.

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Read his statement below

‘’My attention has been called to a post on social media by Ese Ukpeseraye. After reading the post and some follow up comments i swung into action. Ese’s post seems to have been grossly misunderstood, perhaps also because it didn’t seem to give proper context to the matter in perspective. It is important i make some clarifications.

 

Abinitio, Team Nigeria qualified for one road race in cycling and prepared for it in terms of training and the appropriate competition equipment. Team Nigeria was fully prepared for this road race until two weeks ago after the Cycling team with the rest of Team Nigeria had already left for the Olympics, that a communication from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) was received reallocating additional slots to the Cyclist Federation of Nigeria (Kerin and individual sprint).

This reallocation to Nigeria was due to the disqualification of a country, leaving Nigeria as the next eligible to make the list of qualified countries to compete. Unfortunately, this additional slot required the use of a different competition equipment in terms of biking.

 

For this track race reallocated to Team Nigeria, a very special equipment (approved specifically for the Olympic track game) is used. It’ll take months to have it delivered after ordering and making payment. To therefore get Ese to compete, the Federation through Ese’s Club in Europe and working with a German owned Company, got a ‘Track Bike’ for our cycler Ese.

Tomorrow the 9th of August 2024, Ese will race in an individual sprint, the race she originally qualified for.”

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