Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Induction To Olympics Seventh Club Excites Oshonaike

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Induction To Olympics Seventh Club Excites Oshonaike By Our Reporter Veteran Nigerian table tennis player, Olufunke Oshonaike, is over the moon after receiving the Seven Club Award for making seven appearances at Olympic Games. The 46 years old crashed out of the women's table tennis single event in Tokyo after she lost her first preliminary round game to Juan Liu of the USA on Saturday. Featuring in Tokyo 2020 makes Oshonaike the first African to participate in Olympic Gamess and the first female table tennis player in the world to achieve the feat. She expressed her excitement in a post on her social media accounts on Monday after she received the award alongside other athletes who have achieved the feat. Her statement read: "I might not have won gold, silver or bronze, but what I got is what another woman has not gotten. The first seven-time Olympian in Africa and the first woman in table tennis woman in the world. Dreams do come true. I am a living testimony. Welcome Funke to the Seven Club Award Thank you Nigeria. Thank you my fans all over the world. Thanks to my family and friends.Above all, thank to my almighty creator." Oshonaike started playing table tennis at a very young age on Akeju Street, Shomolu, Lagos, in the early 1980s. She won gold for Nigeria at 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, amongst a litany of medals at the continental sports fiesta.