HELPLESSLY PATRIOTIC – Meet Seun, Akuoma & Ngozi, 3 Nigerian Bobsled teammates making Winter Olympics history!

While one of their supposed leaders back home is busy spending millions to display his “erections” all over the place, one of these 3 ladies set up a GoFundme account on behalf of her team to raise $75,000 to help achieve a historic Olympic dream and make their country proud.

So, the fact that no Nigerian has ever competed in the Winter Olympics, and that they will be Africa’s first ever Olympic representatives in the sport, and then plus an added fact that these 3 ladies took it upon themselves to beat both fiscal and physical odds to achieve this, makes it all superbly inspiring and very patriotic to say the least! Go girls!

Thirty years after the Jamaican bobsled team captured hearts around the world, three women from Nigeria stand on the brink of making history of their own in the same event.

Driver Seun Adigun and brakewomen Akuoma Omeoga, Ngozi Onwumere have qualified for Pyeongchang 2018, ensuring an African nation will be represented in the sport at the Winter Olympics for the first time ever.

Despite numerous success stories in the summer Games — notably gold in the men’s football at Atlanta 1996 — no Nigerian has ever competed in a Winter Olympic event before.

Now, after completing all five qualifying races, the Nigerian women’s bobsled team are on their way to South Korea in February.

There’s more to bobsled than just sliding on ice! The work these ladies ( @seun_msamazing, @ngozi.onwumere, @akuomaomeoga ) put in before a race is unimaginable. Here’s an inside look from start to finish of Race #5 at the North Americas Cup 🏆in Calgary, Alberta. 🇳🇬 📽: @aminatodunbaku 🎼: @baddosneh #teamnigeria #wewill #nigeriabobsled #underarmour #lazer #bsfnigeria #nigerianathletes #calgary #ibsf #love #womenofpower #teamUA

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“Ecstatic to say the least!” posted the Bobsled & Skeleton Sports Federation of Nigeria (BSFN). “To see a mere dream come to reality is a true blessing.”

“Their hard work was inspiring and I hope Nigerians can appreciate what it took for them to achieve this,” said BSFN president Solomon Ogba.

Seun Adigun at the London 2012 Olympics.

“They are all very successful people in their own right — in sports and out of it, and somehow they are still motivated and still push for more success.

“I have watched them train and work hard to represent Nigeria at the Winter Olympics in a very technical and high risk sport and they have achieved that.”

Away from the ice, all three have been professional track and field athletes in their time.Adigun, who once dreamed of becoming the first woman in the NBA, enjoyed particular success in the 100m hurdles, winning the national championships on multiple occasions and representing Nigeria at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Now they go where no Nigerians have gone before.

“We are from a continent that would never imagine sliding down ice at 80 or 90 miles per hour,” Adigun told the BBC in March. “I find the idea of getting people to take to that inspiring in itself.”

Compatriot Simi Adeagbo, a four-time NCAA All American and triple jump school record holder, is aiming to compete in the skeleton.