NIGERIA national team, D’Tigers forward, Alade Aminu has received Olympic Certificate of Recognition “OLY honour” from the World Olympians Association (WOA), Sportinglife.ng 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.