- Our first guests are three women
making winter Olympic history as the first athletes
from Africa to ever qualify for the bobsled competition,
please welcome the Nigerian Bobsled Team!
[MUSIC - BEYONCE, "WHO RUN THE WORLD (GIRLS)"]
Who run the world?
Girls.
Who run the world?
Girls.
Who run the world?
Girls.
Who run this mother--
Hey.
Who run this mother-- girls.
Who run the world?
Girls.
Who run the world?
Girls.
Who run the world?
Girls.
Who run the world?
Girls.
Some of them men think they freak this like we do.
But no, they don't.
Make your cheque come at they neck, disrespect us,
no they won't.
Boy, don't even try to touch this.
Boy, this beat is crazy.
This is how they made me.
Houston, Texas, baby.
- Oh, my goodness gracious!
- Now, if there was a dancing competition in the Olympics,
you would also be in that.
- I mean--
- You know--
- Listen, first of all, congratulations!
You are making history.
This is like--
- Thank you so much
[CHEERING]
- Thank you.
- Ellen, before you-- we just need to let you know,
my goodness, girl-- whoa, I can't breath, hold on.
- Yeah, no, I was like--
- No, really, I told them right now,
hopefully they have the emergency room close by.
Because I'm like, when I meet Ellen--
my heart, right now.
My heart-- I might scream occasionally, but it's normal.
You're Ellen.
[LAUGHTER]
- You are very sweet.
- These are things that happen.
I am absolutely ecstatic.
I mean, I can't believe just getting down
at the end of the fifth race in qualifying and being like, oh
my god.
Like I literally couldn't breathe.
Like something like right now.
[AGREEMENT]
- Celebration.
- We're coming together.
- Well, you have good lung capacity
because you're track and field.
So all of you are in good shape.
- Yeah.
- You can recover fast.
OK, so you live in the United States.
Where do you live exactly?
- Houston, Texas.
- Houston, right now.
[CROWD SCREAMING]
But you represent Nigeria because your parents
are from there?
OK, so--
- That's correct.
- They must be going crazy in Nigeria right now.
Oh, my god.
Everybody's going absolutely nuts.
You know, the crazy thing about it
is most people don't really understand what bobsled is.
Some people are like, this is bobsledge.
Some people are like--
I mean, they're creating all kinds of things.
But they don't care.
They just know that the flag is raising high
and they are excited about it.
- Right, not to mention my dad thinks
he's a celebrity now because everybody that texts him,
they're like, that's your daughter.
And we know most people, I'm like, you're not a celebrity.
We're not a celebrity.
- No, that's how it works.
Because anyone in proximity becomes a celebrity.
Believe me, that's how it works.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
[LAUGHTER]
- That is so funny.
- All right, so you were in track and field.
And then who thought of doing bobsled.
Who thought, let's learn the bobsled?
- That's the culprit right here.
- That would be this one.
- And how do you learn something like that?
Because you didn't even have the right equipment, right?
- No.
Actually, to be honest, we're still
learning how to do bobsled.
You know, I have fortunately have been in the sport
for-- this will be my third season.
But my first season as a driver fully is this one.
Imagine taking a 16-year-old who just learned how to drive
and throwing them in Daytona.
You know, it's one of those things where, yeah, he
knows how to drive, but it is a whirlwind.
Like every time, literally, I cross the finish line,
I'm screaming because I'm like, thank god, we survived.
- Along with the rest of us, we like, thank god,
we made it down!
- So do you all--
because I don't think I even understand bobsled.
So one person-- two people push and one is in it?
Or one-- how does it work?
- Yes, there are two of us in the sled at any given time,
so we both technically do push.
But we're the brakemen.
So we're like the motor of the sled while she drives.
- OK, and then you just run as fast as you can and then you
get in it and you just lay down and steer with your feet?
With your body?
- No, I steer with my hands.
There's like this axle system, like a pulley where
if you want to go right, you pull right, if you
want to go left, you pull left.
- Right
- And so I'm actually the only one who gets to see anything.
They're face down--
- We're just down there like, oh, god, Oh, dear god.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
- When's it going to be over?
- Help us.
- When is it going to be over?
- And I'm in there like--
- I mean, how does that go?
- I mean some people can get it up to about 90 miles
an hour or more.
I think I've gotten as fast as like 84 miles.
But again, there's a lot of respect
to be had for this sport.
- Is there a speedometer in there?
Do you know how fast you're going?
- No way.
- No, at the end--
There ought to be because if I saw it, I'd be like--
[GRUNTING]
- We should invent that.
Because I think that would make us more scared.
Once we start seeing it going over, like
[SCREAMS]
- So you're going to be in the opening ceremony,
but only one of you is carrying the flag
because there's one flag.
But I feel like everyone should carry something.
So I have something for all of you to carry.
[LAUGHTER]
[SCREAMING]
[APPLAUSE]