2024 Youth Winter Olympics: Team Nigeria lands In Finland For Qualifiers

Crew Nigeria has arrived in Lohja, Finland to compete within the World Junior-B Curling Championships scheduled to happen from December 8- 19, 2022.

The Nigeria Junior Curling group to Finland is made up of 11 junior curlers (5 boys and 6 ladies) who travelled within the firm of two officers of the curling Federation.

These to fly Nigeria’s Inexperienced and White colors in Finland are; Danmola Adedamola, Chukwuemeka Daniel, Charles Idongesit, Umoren Aniedi and Kamsiyochukwu Emmanuel Dike. Others are Oku Jasmine, Uchegbu Nelly, Oku Olamide, Uchegbu Present, Kalejaiye Deborah and Oluwanimifise Wale-Adeogun.

The Federation’s Youth Administrators Charles Neimeth, Scott Hill and Lyne Laganiere will even be becoming a member of the group in Finland to supply the wanted assist.

Earlier than departing from the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport, Abuja en route for France to Finland, the Nigerian contingent expressed nice optimism whilst they promised to be good ambassadors of the nation.

Crew Nigeria will likely be competing in opposition to 21 different international locations within the male class and 24 different groups within the feminine class as they formally start their qualification quest for the 2024 Youth Winter Olympics billed to happen in Gangwon Province, South Korea.

The Boys’ group will start their marketing campaign on Thursday, December eighth with opening-day video games in opposition to Latvia and Australia.

The Nigeria boys will thereafter face Italy and Spain on Friday earlier than battling Hungary and Poland on the third day of motion.

The ladies’s competitors begins on Thursday 15 December after the conclusion of the lads’s occasion.

Based on the organisers, all medal-winning groups will safe qualification for the World Junior Curling Championships 2023 to be held in Fuessen, Germany from February to March 2023.

Having labored arduous prior to now months with the assets at his disposal, Daniel Damola, President of the Nigeria Curling Federation, believes the nation will do nicely in Finland.

“It is a very younger group of girls and boys from ages 10 to 19. They’ve skilled so arduous and it’s now time to reveal them to actual ice as a result of the curling recreation is performed on ice slides.

“I’m optimistic that quickly, this younger group will put themselves on the world map”.

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