This year’s Winter Olympics will hold between February 9-25, and Nigerian women’s bobsleigh team will be making history as the first African sled to compete at the Games. The trio of Adigun, Onwumere and Omeoga were once track and field athletes before switching to bobsled, a winter sports. Adigun actually represented Nigeria in the 100m hurdles at the London 2012 Olympics. Africa was first represented at the Winter Olympics at Sarajevo 1984 by Senegalese alpine skier, Lamine Gueye. At Sochi 2014, Togo and Zimbabwe were the only nations from the continent to send athletes to the Winter Olympics.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2018 05:15 UTC