The highlighted athletes won, gold, silver, and bronze medals with their ‘adopted’ countries.
There is hardly any top sporting competition in the world that Nigerian names don’t pop up even if the Green and White flag of the country is conspicuously absent.
The situation was not any different at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics even though Team Nigeria was actually on parade in Japan – returning home with two medals.makes a shortlist of athletes who have Nigerian heritage but competed for other countries in Tokyo and also won medals. Though Desalu is of Nigerian origin, he was born and raised in Italy and acquired full Italian citizenship in 2012.
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