Cycling Club In Port Harcourt Taken to the NEXT LEVEL

Glory and Preye

Lifestyle Cycling Club, Port Harcourt in conjunction with the Rivers State Cycling Association, Nigerian Cycling Federation and Italian Cycling Federation sent two brilliant young cyclists to Italy for training to start preparing them for the next Olympic in Reo de Janeiro, Brazil. DEBO OLADIMEJI spoke to the young cyclists and their sponsors on challenges facing cycling in Nigeria and what can be done to confront them.

THE Lifestyle Cycling Club, Port Harcourt is aware of the challenges facing cycling in Nigeria and the necessary measures government should put in place for Nigeria to qualify for the next Olympic at Reo de Janeiro, Brazil.

With the slogan: Nigeria for Reo, 2015, the club is working with other stakeholders to prepare  young athletes for the next Olympic.


 

The  Club in conjunction with Rivers State Sports Council, Nigeria Cycling Federation and Italian Cycling Federation sent two young Nigerians athletes to Italy for training recently.

The members of the club had been active in games like All African Games, ECOWAS tour of Cote d’Ivoire( 2012). Also they have been doing series of local training of young athletes to prepare them for the next Olympics.

Besides, members of the club won 12 gold medals out of the 14 won during the 17th National Sport Festival.

One of the athletes that were sent to Italy Odiase Glory, 19, was a student of Owanta Secondary School, Agbor, she finished in 2007 before she decided to settle in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in 2009.

“I decided to develop my interest in cycling,” she said.

Glory the fourth in a family of six is optimistic that cycling will take her far.

“It was Mrs. Joy Nwachukwu, who introduced Lifestyle Cycling Club to me in 2009. She is a coach, a contract staff working for the Rivers State Sport Council,” she said.

With the support of the Lifestyle Cycling Club she won two gold medals and two slivers in cycling in the 17th National Sports Festival. She won 4 Trophies at the ECOWAS Tour of Cote d’Ivoire in 2012.That qualified her as the champion in the whole of West Africa.

She is now doing her best to defend her championship.

“I am now second to none in the whole of West Africa in cycling. In the coming 18th National Sport Festival in Lagos, I promise to do better,” she said.

She disclosed that the training she received in Italy is going to boost her morale to do well in the 18th National Sport Festival in Lagos.

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