Olympics – The Super Falcons have qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games.
Nigeria beat South Africa 1-0 on aggregate to reach the Summer Olympics.
Rasheedat Ajibade scored from the spot in the first leg of the qualifiers in Abuja on Friday.
That goal was enough for the Super Falcons to pick one of Africa’s tickets for the women’s football event of the Paris Olympics as the second leg tie ended goalless in South Africa.
The last time Nigeria’s Super Falcons reached the Olympics was 16 years ago.
Both teams have played several times since their 7-1 win against South Africa in a 1995 World Cup qualifier in Johannesburg.
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They have met 24 times with Nigeria winning 15, five ended in draws and South Africa claimed victory four times.
The Summer Olympic Games also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years on leap years (except 1900 and 2021).
The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and the most recent Games were held in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is responsible for organising the Games and for overseeing the host city’s preparations.
The tradition of awarding medals began in 1904; in each Olympic event, gold medals are awarded for first place, silver medals for second place, and bronze medals for third place.
The Winter Olympic Games were created out of the success of the Summer Olympic Games, which are regarded as the largest and most prestigious multi-sport international event in the world.
The Summer Olympics have increased in scope from a 42-event competition programme in 1896 with fewer than 250 male competitors from 14 nations to 339 events in 2021 with 11,420 competitors (almost half of whom were women) from 206 nations.
The Games have been held in nineteen countries over five continents.
