By Chief Segun Odegbami,
Were the English Premier League, or the La Liga, or even the Olympic Games to be on somewhere in the world, staying at home for two weeks during this most challenging period in human history, to wear off the destructive power of coronavirus would have been more tolerable for a chunk of the world.
The lockdown all over the world has become an imperative without which the health war may not be won.
Sports are a very powerful weapon. That’s why the Olympic games were conceived and have sustained as the only human social activity that has remained constant to its grand objective of global peace, unification of all people, and testing and extending the frontiers of physical and mental human capacity. Sports engage the public, participants, followers, and financial beneficiaries alike.
That’s why one of the last and most difficult decisions to be taken globally, even as the Coronavirus pandemic held the world in its lethal grip, was that of suspending…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
