The lure of medals and money rewards for potential champions has been recognized as a significant component driving the rise of age dishonest on the Nationwide Youth Video games (NYG).
The Government Director of Sports activities Improvement and Operations on the Edo State Sports activities Fee, Mrs. Chikere Sabina, made this identified whereas talking with journalists on the ongoing Youth Video games in Asaba.
In response to her, the first motive of the NYG is grassroots sports activities improvement and expertise discovery, however the introduction of monetary incentives and medal targets by some states has inspired unethical practices.
“As soon as medals and money rewards are connected, directors are likely to push athletes who’re above the age restrict simply to impress their principals and executives. This paves the best way for proliferation of age cheats by states,” Sabina remarked.
She additional famous that it will be unrealistic to anticipate the Youth Video games to be utterly freed from age cheats as long as further rewards stay a part of the motivation.
Mrs. Sabina, nevertheless, urged organisers to redefine the goals of the NYG consistent with its authentic imaginative and prescient of discovering and nurturing younger abilities, fairly than specializing in medal counts.
She counseled the Edo State Authorities for offering the proper platform for teenagers to develop by sports activities, stressing that abilities found from the Video games can be groomed and nurtured consistent with the administration’s imaginative and prescient.
