Nigeria will be represented at the Winter Olympics for the first time ever, after their women's team qualified for the bobsled event at the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang.

Driver Seun Adigun and brakemen Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga completed the fifth of their required five qualifying races on Wednesday, becoming the first African team, men or women, to qualify in the Bobsled category.

In women's bobsled, teams are required to complete five races to qualify. The Nigeria team, led by driver Adigun - a former African 100m hurdles champion and 2012 summer Olympian - completed races in Utah, one in Whistler, and their final two races in Calgary on Tuesday and Wednesday.

"This is a huge milestone for sports in Nigeria," driver Adigun told KweséESPN. "Nothing makes me prouder than to know that I can play a small role in creating opportunities for winter sports to take place in Nigeria.

"Our objective now is to be the best representation of Africa that the Winter Olympics have ever witnessed."


Solomon Ogba, President of the Bobsled and Skeleton Federation of Nigeria, was understandably thrilled at the achievement, saying via a media statement: "I commend the personal dedication and commitment of these women.

"Their hard work was inspiring and I hope Nigerians can appreciate what it took for them to achieve this - the work, the discipline, and the personal sacrifices. They were amazing throughout this journey.

"They are all very successful people in their own right - in sports and out of it, and somehow they are still motivated and still push for more success.

"I have watched them train and work hard to represent Nigeria at the Winter Olympics in a very technical and high risk sport and they have achieved that. They should be very proud, and I am very proud of them."

Nigeria could yet secure another spot at the Games, with driver Simidele Adeagbo just two races away from qualifying for the Skeleton competition.


http://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/21430137/nigeria-bobsled-women-qualify-winter-olympics

Cc: lalasticlala, Mynd44.

Congratulations to the team for achieving this unprecedented milestone.

Nice one girls keep flying d flag. We are proud of u

Nigerians be like 'Ewo tun ni bobsled bayi o??
'

Congrats beautiful ladies

Wetin be bobsled please

Since when did Nigeria start participating in winter Olympics?



Dalung will come and claim glory again

Football I know, bobsled I don't know

Pls what's that, abi na car race
This one m hearing driver

Beautiful ladies I sha think say I go see boobs sef o

"Our objective now is to be the best representation of Africa that the Winter Olympics have ever witnessed."

All the very best and Congratulations to our beautiful women athletes!


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what an interesting headline....

see fresh girls o... these girls go sweet scatter

Fantastic Spirit

Bobrisky

If you are following these ladies, they have been doing this on their own....persistence and perseverance paid of ...Congratulations

See as dem body fresh like early morning tombo

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four teammates make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity- powered sled . The timed runs are combined to calculate the final score.

We hv no business here. We dont even hv a winter sports body here

Wow!


This is fantastic not because Nigeria qualified for this particular sport at the Olympics in 2018, but because it reminds me of the 1993 movie "Running Cool"


The Jamaican bobsled team!


Very inspiring.


BTW, Nigeria is bound to fail in woefully in this very sport at the onlympics. So I won't waste my excitement on them.

Beautiful ladies with ambition

This buhari head is good for our sport ooo. Na so so good news in sport

nice one ladies ... they all ugly and fresh tho

tendawarrior1:
Nice one girls keep flying d flag. We are proud of u

It means some sensible people prefer one Nigeria

Orisirisi which one is bobsled again! I hope Fg will support them sha cos I feel like the emphasis is too much on football at the detriment of other sports which ought not to be

This is history.

emeijeh:
Since when did Nigeria start participating in winter Olympics?

Since 2018.

Samusu:
Wetin be bobsled please

a Winter sport where you race down an icy slope using a sled, more specifically Bobsled

Reminds me of a very old movie called cool runnings where a black jamaican team featured in bobsledding in winter Olympics. I love their courage though go girls

Ma dis one den dey call think what you can do for your country not what your country can do for you

Congratulations! No be beans.