Members of Nigeria’s trailblazing bobsled and skeleton teams are set for a historic debut at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, reports ’Tana Aiyejina

As the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games began on Friday, Team Nigeria, who are making their debut at the event, had a four-woman team as its entire contingent of athletes.

The city of PyeongChang hosts the largest Winter Olympics Games ever, with 92 nations participating. Nigeria joins five countries namely fellow Africans Eritrea, Ecuador, Kosovo, Malaysia and Singapore as debutants.

No African country has ever competed in bobsled and skeleton events at the Winter Olympics, but that has changed thanks to four women who are representing Nigeria at the Games. Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere, Akuoma Omeoga and Simidele Adeagbo.

Adigun, Onwumere and Omeoga, the members of Nigeria’s bobsled team, will compete for a place on the podium on February 20 and 21.

They are established athletes engaged in many other endeavours. Onwumere has background work experience in the mortgage industry and is now a full-time student pursuing a doctorate, while Omeoga, the brakeman for the team, works as a health care recruiter.


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