Nigeria’s senior women basketball team, D’Tigress yesterday booked a ticket to the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo despite losing to host-Serbia in their second group game at the ongoing FIBA Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament 64-70 points.
The back-to-back FIBA Women’s AfroBasket champions stage a comeback to their first Olympic appearance since 2004 in Athens, Greece, after Mozambique’s quest to qualify ahead of Nigeria suffered a heavy knock when they lost scandalously 49-124pts against current world champions- USA as Nigeria Basketball Federation set another enviable record of being the only federation in Nigeria to have two teams at the Olympics.
