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FIBA World Cup: D’Tigers Beat China to Qualify For 2020 Olympics

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 03:27 pm

Nigeria’ s D ’ Tigers have qualified for the 2020 Olympics holding in Tokyo , after beating their Chinese opponents in front of a home crowd in Guangzhou .
D’Tigers , who are participating in the FIBA Basketball World Cup in China won the game , 86 – 73.
With this result , Nigeria is also the top African team at the ongoing 2019 Basketball World Cup.

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