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How do African athletes train for the Winter Olympics without ice?

Nigeria’s youth curling team, the Broomzillas, are competing in South Korea.

Nigeria’s youth curling team, the Broomzillas, are Africa’s first curling team to reach a Winter Youth Olympics. Their journey to the 2024 Gangwon Games in South Korea hasn’t been easy. They’ve struggled with funding and of course, as Nigeria doesn’t have freezing weather, access to ice to train is incredibly difficult.

We speak to two of the team - Tomi and Fatiu. So how do they get ready for the competition?

Also, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Africa sports reporter, Isaiah Akinremi, takes us through the wider picture across the African continent and the challenge athletes face to break into winter sports.

Plus, Ghana is getting back some of its most treasured artefacts… but only on loan. They were looted from the Asante royal court by the British one hundred and fifty years ago. They ended up in a London museum which has now agreed to lend them back for three years. The ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Ghana correspondent, Thomas Naadi, tells us that many want the move to be permanent.

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Presenter: Hannah Gelbart
Producers: Emily Horler, Alex Rhodes and Baldeep Chahal
Editors: Verity Wilde and Simon Peeks

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Sat 27 Jan 2024 03:50GMT

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