The Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) has announced that its wrestlers’ overseas training for the 2024 Paris Olympics will start on Monday in Saarbrucken, Germany.

NWF President Daniel Igali shared this information with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Ibadan, stating that the overseas training will follow the current local camp in Yenagoa, which concludes on Sunday.

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“Preparations for the Olympics are in top gear. We’ve been in camp in Yenagoa for over two weeks, and training so far is going well. We have five Olympics-bound athletes and three training partners each in camp.

“The lone male among the Olympics-bound wrestlers is not in camp yet, and that is Ashton Mutuwa who is based in the U.S. Already, Adekuoroye who is also based in the U.S. has now joined us. Mutuwa will join the overseas camp because of his peculiar situation.

“He has very good training partners in the US, and we want that to continue because we’re quite happy with his training situation there, which we are monitoring very closely,” he stated.

Igali assured that Mutuwa’s training is being monitored closely and the NWF is satisfied with his progress so far while also mentioning that Adekuoroye has been focusing on pace and strength training.

“We believe that she has good training partners here in Nigeria that will really get her fortified for the Olympics, because we have a lot of hope for her at this Olympics,” the NWF President added.

He disclosed that while the wrestlers are expected to camp in Germany for three weeks, the federation hopes they will remain there until the end of July.

”This is because we won’t start competing until August 5, and we would like to move into the Games Village four days before our events,” Igali concluded.