New Olympic bobsled and skeleton criteria that helped Nigeria qualify female bobsledders for PyeongChang should also get skeleton racers from Ghana and Nigeria into the Winter Games, experts believe.
Ghana’s Akwasi Frimpong is ranked 104th in the world men’s skeleton rankings. The Olympic skeleton field will be 30 men.
But Frimpong is all but assured an Olympic berth when the field is announced in mid-January because he is the only ranked slider from Africa, bobsled and skeleton officials said.
Same for Nigerian Simidele Adeagbo, who triple jumped at the 2004 and 2008 U.