Nigerian Women Bobsledders: The 'S***hole' Olympians Warming Hearts in South Korea

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Every so often an Olympic team captures the the public imagination not because of their stellar performance, but because of the sheer audacity it takes for them to perform at all.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nigerian-women-bobsledders-the-shole-olympians-warming-hearts-in-south-korea?ref=home

At a send-off celebration in Lagos before heading to South Korea, the team had to give a demonstration of just what the sport was about, including a primer on how cold snow really is.

“Just because you don't know what it means to see snow or to understand temperatures that are equivalent to ice, that doesn't mean you have to shy away from it," Adigun said at the celebration, according to press reports. "That's what Africa is representing, that we can take those risks and still be able to compete with the best in the world."

All three bobsled team members grew up in America after their parents emigrated from Nigeria in the 1980s as part of the African diaspora that came over when the United States more readily welcomed people from third-world nations. They joke about being from a “shithole” country, as defined by President Donald Trump, saying they hope they can redefine the view of African immigrants.

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1. Well, they don't really *need* to redefine the view of African immigrants ...

... we need to redefine who's considered an acceptable candidate for POTUS.

He and his supporters will never change their views, and most of the rest of us are caught up already. Enough to matter, anyway.