 Welcome back to the Breakfast and Plots TV Africa, the last lap of our conversations this morning and I have two good news for you regarding sports. First and first, the Olympic Games has begun. Second, not too good news, Nigeria is not participating in the football event but if you are interested in other games at basketball, definitely Nigeria is to watch out for and to discuss more of this with us is Wiley Scott, our sports correspondent. Good morning Wiley Scott. Alright, give us the gist about, first of all, the Olympic Games starting amidst the COVID-19 scare. I think it's a bit of a sweet feeling for me, like drinking beer. It's really sad that the only OPM we have in Nigeria is football and we are the only African country in the world that's ever won a gold at the Olympics in football and then due to bad structure and different fractions in fighting amongst our different bodies, it affects us directly or indirectly. We are not involved at the football events. Alright, so let's talk about Nigeria's fate at the Olympics, not relationship. We are not going to be participating in football, which of course everyone normally is excited about. Basketball seems to be our only, you know, the new OPM that we have now. Do you think that we have any chance whatsoever to at least do well? Well, that's what we do. USA at the yardstick for basketball across the world, we played them last week or two weeks ago, we beat them and don't forget that a large amount of our guys who are in the Tigers and the Tigers actually applied their trade in the US and so they play with these guys week in week out, day in day out and so they're not new to each other. So Nigeria's chances of actually bringing them, I didn't say gold though, but bringing the medal home is very hopeful because truth be said, these guys don't play here, none of them play here. They all play abroad, they all play with better structures, have an exposure, know all these guys one on one and so yes, I think basketball, we do have chances to make it happen. Aside from basketball, is there any other sport that we should be looking out for? The other sport that actually humors me, it's equals my fans really. I look at it that I laugh, athletics. Now, Chirma and Juwan is the only person female in athletics who has won an individual gold at the Olympics. Good for her, we are really grateful to her, but look at the ones who have gone there now. We had an African meets in Yabatek here, I was there and our girls were clocking 10.16, 10.26 in the 100 meters and we're looking at countries like America, like Jamaica, where the girls are looking to clock 9.05, 9.00. You know, so I'm asking myself, we are clocking 10.16 here, breaking record here, the African meets and girls there are breaking record with 9.02 seconds. So we're going there to go out and run against them. What chances do we have? None, if you ask me. Like I said, the Olympics has never been my forte. Unfortunately, I have always in different media houses I have worked in. I have been lucky to have covered the Olympics at different times, but I've always honestly wanted to cover the Paralympics. They are the ones that make us proud. The Paralympians will stay at National Stadium soon, they're there, trained with rusty barbells in weightlifting. When they finish the weight, we eat yam, rice and beans with sachet water and still go there and bring them gold. How they do that, I have no idea. It's a miracle. But our guys here, they bless Nukat Bariz, live abroad. Practically everybody in this contingent, 58 of them, half of them, prior to abroad. And then they still go there and still make a means meet of the country. And then the Paralympians who do what this is their first time abroad. It's sachet water they're drinking, they don't drink vitamin, they don't drink supplement. It's yam, I know many of them, after training, it's yam, beans and rice, they eat. And they still go there and miraculous summer, the Nigerian spirit and still come back home with gold. How they do that, I don't know. So, left to me, if you ask my honest, as Waliu, not as his post presenter, I do not have any too much hope for this group of people, except like I said earlier, basketball, the athletics, the triathlon, the weightlifting, table tennis, I have no, I don't know how do we win gold here. When Japan is the host country, even when Japan wasn't hosting in ping pong, can't take them out. It's all they have, ping pongers, that's what they do. Asian countries. And then Japan are the host country, so they must have been ready before now. So, forget good for Iron Accordion. China is still there. Iron Accordion has played table tennis with Andrea for forever. For like forever. So, how have we not been able to develop any other table tennis talent? Nobody's developing anything, just like Gennaro, our Super Ego coach, he's convenient with you playing abroad. Whether it's Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, it doesn't matter. As far as you are abroad, come. You know, and nobody's looking inwards, nobody's trying to walk on the grass roots. It's either you play abroad or you're nobody. And that's why our whole team looks like a mixed European country. That's the truth. We have fantastic footballers here who just need to be groomed, exposed. That's all. But nobody's looking inwards. It's about you playing abroad. Try and get abroad, even if it's Egypt. What do you think of Nigeria? What ever sports? Well, there's more time to talk about Nigeria's chances at the Olympics. But that's also before we go look at the Olympics, you know, in general. First one that has been, well, done in the pandemic. Crowds are going to be less. There's still fears about, you know, infection numbers rising. There will be, you know, serious testing going on across the whole period. Do you think it will be able to have the same emotional connection to the Olympics this time as we've had in the past? The feeling is gone already. The Olympic feel, the feeling of I'm Nigerian, I'm going to be Australian for the first time, meet the Japanese, you know, coming together as a family is gone. Because first off, the Japanese government has spent billions on this Olympics and they can't have spectators. It's that bad. Zero spectators. That's taking the feel of it. Because the beauty of the Olympics is to bring people from different nations together and that's gone because you can't have spectators, you know, and I won't feel comfortable if I was walking, I was watching the Olympics or any of the events in a pub in Tokyo or Hiroshima or wherever. It won't be fun. You know, so that's gone. But that's what this has gone already. And then don't forget that there was a bubble that was built in the games village. 58 people tested positive. So health experts says the bubble has burst already. You know, so it's taking the shine of it. We are here now COVID-19 cases like every day. And people are getting scared. And the you can't have them almost left five of them was left because of coronavirus fears. People that want to actually want to leave. Guys didn't come. Look at tennis, for example, long tennis, a whole lot of superstars, highly rated seeded tennis players have refused to come to the Olympics because of coronavirus fears. He's taking, for me, this is the most expensive Olympics, but the worst ever. Because the beauty of it, the joy of the Olympics, what it represents, see the rings, the rings of the Olympics represent different people coming together as one. And which people are coming there? That's the athletes. And then the rest we have to rely on the TV. That takes a shout out. That's all for the best. Well, it's gone. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thanks for stopping by. We will, of course, I'm sure you're going to be here at 9 30 to do further analysis. Over time, we'd have more conversations concerning the Olympics. Thank you. All right. Stay with us. We'll go on a short break when we come back. Well, final bits here on the breakfast.