Team Nigeria Curlers have become the first African team to qualify for the 2024 Youth Winter Olympics, taking place in the Gangwon Province, South Korea.
All the curlers are homebased, and they excelled qualifying for both Mixed and Mixed Doubles events.
According to Daniel Damola, President of the Nigeria Curling Federation:
“Well done, Team Nigeria youth curlers for making history again by becoming the first African Nation to qualify for the 2024 Youth Winter Olympics. We are proud of you all and the boys’ team as well. Still we rise.
Nigeria secured qualification at the World Junior B Curling championship held in Finland. The beautiful thing about the whole success is that we actualized the dream using the locals, the home-based athletes and children from the grassroots.
This is life-changing for all of them and basically for the country as well. For us to pull out this historic achievement using only home-based youth athletes, the first of its kind in the entire African region. I’m glad and happy. It is a team success.
Not minding that there was no support from anybody; Government, NOC or sponsors, we achieved this. That means if we had sponsors, you can only imagine what we would have achieved. Like I always say, still we rise at the Nigerian curling.”
