Making his debut at the Olympic Games, Uche Eke, the first athlete from Nigeria to compete in the gymnastic events of the Games, has set his sights on winning a medal in the colours of Team Nigeria at Tokyo 2020. After a gold-winning debut at the African Games in Morocco in 2019, the 23-year-old will […]
Uche Eke competes at an NCAA event for the University of Michigan. He will be representing Nigeria at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: UM
Since then, Eke has expanded his adventuresome ways to include dirt biking, skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding and hill-bombing, which involves racing a scooter or bike down a slope as fast as possible. And skydiving is on his bucket list. “I am not going to be concentrating on any other person; I will focus on myself and do what I have to do out there.”
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