By Akeem Lawal
NIGERIA national team, D’Tigers forward, Alade Aminu has
received Olympic Certificate of Recognition “OLY honour” from the World
Olympians Association (WOA), Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com reports.
Aminu, who plays for Polski Cukier Toruń of the Polish
Basketball League (PLK), represented Nigeria at the 2012 and the 2016 summer
Olympic Games.
The 32-year-old, who was part of the 2015 Afrobasket
winning team, was presented with the OLY honour by the National President of
the Italian Basketball Federation, Gianni Petrucci in company of the secretary
of the federation, Maurizio Bertea and the CEO of Basketball Champions League
Patrick Comninos just before the FIBA Basketball Champions League game between
Dinamo Sassari and Polski Cukier Torun in Sassari, Italy.
Other recipients of the honour also include Gianmarco
Pozzecco, who was part of the Italian roster that won the silver medal at the
Athens 2004 Olympic Games in Greece and Miro Bilan, who represented Croatia at
the Rio 2016 Olympics.
“#Olympians Alade Aminu 🇳🇬, Miro Bilan🇭🇷
and Gianmarco Pozzecco 🇮🇹 were presented with their #OLY
certificates before this week’s #BasketballCL game between Dinamo Sassari and
Polski Cukier Torun in Sassari, Italy. Congratulations,” WOA said in a tweet.
Olympians who have received the honour can use the
letters OLY after their name on official documentation.
The World Olympians Association launched the OLY
initiative in November 2017. Since then, more than 10,000 Olympians worldwide
have been granted the honour, which serves to recognise their sporting
achievements and act as a symbol of their commitment to furthering the Olympic
ideals.
The OLY honour is available to any athlete who has
competed at a Summer or Winter Olympic Games and applications to
receive it can be submitted on the WOA website.
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