Africa secured a total of 39 medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, but which countries were winners and losers?
Kenyan long-distance runner Beatrice Chebet, Botswanan sprinter Letsile Tebogo and Algerian gymnast Kaylia Nemour all won gold at Paris 2024The curtain has come down on Paris 2024, an Olympics in which Africa registered a slight improvement on its performance from Tokyo 2020.
"Governments should release funds," Nigerian badminton player Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori told BBC Sport Africa. "It is something we have been working on. It takes time but with the little we have got we are able to match the world." Most of the financial support the Potchfestroom-based 26-year-old received came from her parents - a situation which South Africa's minister of sport, art and culture Gayton McKenzie has vowed to change."I profusely apologise to all athletes that experienced same. You have my absolute word that things will be much different and better for athletes in future."
"We are all very disappointed and demoralised," Opeyori, who was a flag bearer for the country at the opening ceremony, said.The country's minister for sports development, John Owan Enoh, said their performance fell short of "objectives, expectations, and hopes of Nigerians". Women's 3,000m steeplechase champion Winfred Yavi switched to represent Bahrain after missing out on a place in Kenya's team for the World Youth Championships in 2015
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