Joshua-Akanji listed the non-contact sports to include lawn tennis, table tennis, squash, badminton, cycling, athletics, golf, polo, para-athletics and cricket among others.
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had on Thursday announced the lifting of restrictions on outdoor communal non-contact sports.Joshua-Akanji said plans had been concluded for about 20 athletes to resume training at the Port Harcourt High Performance Centre. “This is to kick-start Nigeria’s resumption of sports and also a way of resuming skeletal training for the Tokyo Olympic Games because we don’t want the athletes to get rusty.
The Tokyo Olympics, originally scheduled to hold from July 24 to August 9, 2020 was postponed to the summer of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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