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Team Bayelsa are determined to win first position at the 2024 National Sports Festival, reports Completesports.com.
Delta State hosted and won the last edition of the National Sports Festival in 2022.
Completesports.com learnt that the state government has promised each athlete an instant reward of N500,000 for gold medal.
That is different from the N1.5m the government has already earmarked for each gold medalist.
Silver and bronze medalists will get instant N300,000 and N200,000 respectively.
They will also get an additional N1m and N700,000 as the main reward.
Delta clinched top position at the 2022 edition with 648 medals (320 gold, 200 silver and 128 bronze ).
Bayelsa Queens were second with 337 medals (132 gold, 115 silver and 90).
By Adeboye Amosu
