Against all odds, Nigerian flag can,t be stopped from flying in Glasgow Games

Nigeria has pushed so hard beyond expectation in this year’s commonwealth games in Glasgow Scotland and has outperformed her previous outing in Delhi 4 years ago.

With 11 gold medals and 36 medals overall, she is lying 8^th on the medals table behind only to South Africa in the African representatives. Okagabare Blessing leads the medals haul with 2 Gold medals and a silver in the 100m and 200m sprint as well as the 4x100 meters relay. Weightlifting garnered the most medal haul of 6 gold 6 silver and a bronze while wrestling tutored by Igali Daniel gained 2 gold 2 silver and 8 Bronze medals for the West African nation and Africa’s giant.

Last time in 2010 Nigeria came 9^th in New Delhi games in India.

Below is the medals standing as at 2^nd August 2014

Medal Table

#	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1 England		56	54	53	163
2 Australia		44	42	45	131
3 Canada		31	16	34	81
4 Scotland		19	14	19	52
5 India		14	28	19	61
6 New Zealand		14	12	17	43
7 South Africa		13	10	16	39
8 Nigeria		11	11	14	36
9 Kenya		10	10	5	25
10 Jamaica		10	4	7	21
11 Singapore		8	3	4	15
12 Wales		4	11	20	35
13 Malaysia		4	7	6	17
14 Cyprus		2	4	2	8
15 Northern Ireland		2	3	7	12
16 Papua New Guinea		2	0	0	2
17 Cameroon		1	3	3	7
18 Uganda		1	0	4	5
19 Grenada		1	0	1	2
20 Botswana		1	0	0	1
20 Kribati		1	0	0	1
22 Trinidad and Tobago		0	3	5	8
23 Pakistan		0	3	1	4
24 Bahamas		0	2	1	3
24 Samoa		0	2	1	3
26 Namibia		0	1	2	3
27 Mauritius		0	1	1	2
27 Mozambique		0	1	1	2
29 Bangladesh		0	1	0	1
29 Isle of Man		0	1	0	1
29 Nauru		0	1	0	1
29 Sri Lanka		0	1	0	1
33 Ghana		0	0	2	2
33 Zambia		0	0	2	2
35 Barbados		0	0	1	1
35 Fiji		0	0	1	1
35 St. Lucia		0	0	1	1