<Ul> <Li> 2018 </Li> </Ul> <P> Nigeria first participated in the Olympic Games in 1952, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics . The nation participated in the Winter Olympic Games in 2018, having qualified female athletes in bobsleigh and skeleton . </P> <P> Nigerian athletes have won a total of 24 medals, mostly in athletics and boxing . The national football team won the gold medal in 1996 . In 2008, following the International Olympic Committee's decision to strip the American 4 × 400 metre relay team of their medals after Antonio Pettigrew confessed to using performance - enhancing drugs, their Nigerian rivals were awarded the gold medal . Nigeria also won a medal in the heavyweight division of taekwondo at the 1992 Summer Olympics; as this was only a demonstration sport, Emmanuel Oghenejobo's silver did not count as an official win . </P> <P> The Nigeria Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committee for Nigeria, was created in 1951 . </P>

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