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Nigeria will feature in the Mixed Team Championship and Mixed Doubles Championship at next year’s Youth Winter Olympic Games.
Team Nigeria will represent Africa at the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games qualifiers for the curling competition.
The World Curling Federation, through an official statement on its website, confirmed Nigeria as one of the countries that would feature in both the Mixed Team Championship and Mixed Doubles Championship at next year’s Youth Winter Olympic Games.
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Hosts Korea, Brazil, and the United States are among the other countries that will also have representation simultaneously in both the Mixed Team Championship and the Mixed Doubles Championship.
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Idia College, Benin City destroyed Usugbenu Technical College, Irrua, 7-0, and Benin Technical College defeated Ogbona Secondary School 2-1 to win the female and male categories.
The nations that will compete for medals in Gangwon achieved qualification in various ways.
Others secured their spots through regional quotas or as the National Olympic Committee with the most points outside of these initial criteria, while some qualified through points gained at world championships hosted in Finland.
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The host dominated with 18 medals to win the championship.
The Winter Youth Olympics is billed to take place from January 19 to February 1, 2024.
Nigeria is set for a historic Outing
The President of the Nigeria Curling Federation, Daniel Damola, remarked that for the country to have a great experience in Gangwon, all hands must be on deck.
He said, “This is quite historic and we are glad we have been able to qualify as the only team from Africa, now we have to switch our focus to doing respectably well at the Youth Olympic Games.
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“As a federation, we have been doing all these alone but we will need the government, corporate bodies and indeed well-meaning Nigerians to come to our aid as we step up in our preparation for the Youth Olympic Games."
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