NIGERIAN football legend Segun Odegbami, has detailed how he got caught up in the arson attacks earlier today that targeted high-speed trains in France, hours before tonight’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The act, described as ‘sabotage’ by French authorities, affected tens of thousands of passengers, most of whom were headed to the Games.
Odegbami, the hero of Nigeria’s first-ever Africa Cup of Nations title with his three goals in 1980, was one of the passengers and he shares his experience in a blog post.
The former Green Eagles forward, who is now an accomplished writer and businessman, wrote: “Cancelled Eurostar train services from London to Paris, and other local services within France, have left hundreds of thousands of attendees of the Paris Olympic Games in the limbo of uncertainty.
“Even as I am also stranded until the security measures are lifted, there are ‘eyes’ over the Olympics and the city of Paris that reveal that the excitement over, probably, the most romantic Olympic Games in history, is unscathed, buzzing and alive all over France.
“The Falcons of Nigeria played against Brazil yesterday and lost. They play again on Sunday in Nantes! Life goes on!
“On ‘90 mins with Mathematical’ tomorrow morning I shall chat with Dr. Vincent Okumagba, Chairman of Super Eagles Supporters Club, in Nantes; and Aramide, a former diplomat and a Nigerian resident in Paris, on the first days of Paris 2024!”
The Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony is expected to go ahead without hitches this evening.
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