By Francis Ajuonuma
Nigeria’s D’Tigresses have been drawn in Group B of the International Basketball Association Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournaments for a place at Paris 2024.
The qualifying tournaments are scheduled to hold from February 4-11, 2024. in four cities- Antwerp (Belgium), Serbia, Sopron (Hungary), Belem (Brazil)
The African champions will face Senegal, the United States and Belgium in a four-team round-robin event with their venue in Antwerp, Belgium.
Both France and the United States will compete, despite already qualifying for Paris 2024 as the host nation and world champions respectively.
The top three countries in each group will qualify for next year’s Games, however, the groups featuring the French and USA will see the two best other teams book an Olympic spot.
Read Also: Skales rains curses on EFCC over midnight raid on his apartment
The world number two team, China, who lost last year’s World Cup final to the US, will host its qualifier in a city to be confirmed.
The Asia Cup champions will be joined by Olympic bronze medallists and world number seven side France and New Zealand, as well as a team from an Americas qualifying tournament scheduled to take place in Colombia next month.
World Cup bronze medallists and world number three team, Australia will travel to Brazil for the tournament in Belem.
Brazil are ranked eighth in the world with Serbia, fourth at Tokyo 2020, and Germany completing the group.
Spain, ranked fourth in the world, will play in Sopron in Hungary.
Olympic silver medallists Japan, the world number nine side, and an Americas qualifier complete the group alongside the host nation.
Teams earned their places through their continental tournaments and the World Cup.
