Nigeria's Women Bobsled Team Heads to the Olympics
Nigeria's women bobsled team is making history by heading to the Olympics!
KweséESPN reports that Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere, and Akuoma Omeoga, US-based Nigerian sprinters, headed to a hardware store about a year ago to put together a homemade wooden bobsled. The women practiced for 12 months on it, and now they're the first African bobsled team to qualify for the Olympics!
The ladies were already world-class athletes - Adigun, who ran in the 2012 Olympics recruited her fellow runners to form the team.
“I basically got into the sport of bobsledding in 2015 after a little bit of a hiatus from athletics,” Adigun told People.
“I also learned that Nigeria, the country, had never had any Winter Olympians ... And then to cap it off, I learned that the continent of Africa had never been represented, man or woman, by any bobsled team. So I was like, ‘Okay, this is obviously something that is gonna hang over my head if I don’t step in and try and do something about it.’ ”
