The journey to Olympic glory officially gets underway for Nigeria’s D’Tigress at 5:40 AM on Tuesday when they take on a United States women’s basketball team out to secure its 50th consecutive victory at the Olympics. Since losing in the quarterfinals of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the U.S. women have dominated the opposition. Forty-nine times, […]
The Nigeria Women’s National Team, D’Tigress, listen to the national anthem before the game against the USA on July 18, in Las Vegas. They meet again in Tokyo,
On paper, the defending Olympic champions are favoured to win. However, these Americans are beatable, having lost back-to-back matches against a group of WNBA All-Stars and the Australian national team in Las Vegas.
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