BY: OLATOYE OLAWALE
D'Tigress Recently qualified for their second Olympic Games after making their debut at Athens 2004. The Nigerian ladies have won back-to-back International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Women's AfroBasket titles on their way to qualifying for Tokyo 2020.
Nigeria's women's team won her first FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup match in 2018 and went on to qualify for the Games with a win against Mozambique after twice coming close to defeat top nations like the United States and Serbia.
" I see Nigeria getting to the top and becoming a top 10 country in basketball," said Akhator to insidethegames.biz.
" Nobody would have thought we would be a top 20 team and now we are number 14 in the world.
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More than anything, the focus towards the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, moved to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has Akhator excited about the prospect.
" I always believe I would get to the Olympics from the day I started playing for the national team and I am glad it all came to pass.
If Nigeria win a third consecutive AfroBasket title, the country will be the second nation to do so after Senegal who won four back-to-back titles from 1974 to 1981.
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