Nigeria at the Olympics
The nation participated in the Winter Olympic Games in 2018, having qualified female athletes in bobsleigh and skeleton.The national football team won the gold medal in 1996.In 2008, following the International Olympic Committee's decision to strip the American 4 × 400 metre relay team of their medals from the 2000 Summer Olympics after Antonio Pettigrew confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs, their Nigerian rivals were awarded the gold medal.[2][3] Nigeria also won a medal in the heavyweight division of taekwondo at the 1992 Summer Olympics; as this was only a demonstration sport, Emmanuel Oghenejobo's silver did not count as an official win.[4] The Nigeria Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committee for Nigeria, was created in 1951.