Tag: Tokyo Olympics
Blessing Okagbare May Go to Jail for Allegedly Doping
Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare is about to have her career ended on a sad note as a result of alleged doping.However, the Athletics Federation of...
Reps summon Dare over doping crisis at Tokyo Olympics
The House of Representatives has begun investigation of the disqualification of Nigerian athletes at the 2020 Olympics over alleged doping, asking the Minister of...
Ronaldo’s son joins Man United academy after dad’s return
Cristiano Ronaldo Jr joined up with the Manchester United academy while his father has returned to the club he left 12 years ago.It comes...
Japan withdraws as 2021 Club World Cup host
Japan withdraw from hosting Club World CupTokyo, Japan | AFP | Thursday 9/9/2021 – 16:36 UTC+2 | 180 wordsThe Japanese Football Association (JFA) said...
My husband left me because I refused to quit athletics –...
Track star Patience Okon-George represented Nigeria in the women’s 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m mixed relays at the just-ended Tokyo 2020 Olympics, her second appearance...
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Experience Will Spur Me To Push Our Sports...
…. Blasts Dalong for the rancour and confusion he intends to sow…. Says Team Nigeria broke the 13 year old jinx of no medal...
Drama as Saudi athlete is disqualified for kick to Iranian opponent’s...
Iran’s Sajad Ganjzadeh won the men’s +75kg kumite Olympic gold in karate after high drama at the famed Budokan arena on Saturday.Tareg Hamedi of...
Brazil clinch successive Olympic men’s football gold medal after extra-time winner
Malcom showed his strength in extra-time to give Brazil a 2-1 win over Spain and a second straight Olympic men’s football gold medal on...
Russia has met plans, medals potentials at Tokyo Olympic – ROC
Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), on Saturday said Russia had fulfilled its potential at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and...
Women’s Olympic marathon brought forward due to heat
Saturday’s women’s Olympic marathon at the Tokyo Games has been brought forward an hour to a 6. 00 a.m. (2100 GMT Friday) start in...
Tokyo Olympics: Netherlands’ Lavreysen wins men’s sprint gold
Dutch cyclist Harrie Lavreysen outpaced compatriot Jeffrey Hoogland to win the Olympic men’s sprint title on Friday, winning in a tense deciding race at...
Tokyo Olympics: Mexico beat Japan to win bronze in football
Sebastian Cordova scored a penalty and created two goals as Mexico defeated hosts Japan 3-1 in Saitama on Friday to earn bronze in the...
Olympics: Nigeria lose again in women’s wrestling as Ukraine’s Livach beat...
Nineteen-year-old Nigerian, Adijat Idris, was defeated by Ukraine’s Oksana Livach in the quarter-final of the wrestling women’s 50kg freestyle at the ongoing Tokyo 2020...
USA’s Nageotte wins gold in women’s Olympic pole vault
Katie Nageotte won the women’s pole vault on Thursday to give the United States only their fifth track and field gold medal of the...
Nigeria’s Oborududu Wins Another Medal for the Country
Nigeria's Blessing Oborududu has made the country proud by winning silver at the ongoing 2020 Olympic games.Even though she lost the final of the...
Missing Belarus dissident found hanged in Ukraine park
A missing Belarusian dissident was on Tuesday found hanged in a park in Ukraine, with police opening a murder probe and supporters accusing the...
Tokyo Olympics: Long jumper Ese Brume wins first medal for Nigeria
Ese Brume has won the first medal for Nigeria at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics.She won bronze in women’s long jump.Germany’s Malaika Mihambo soared...
Ese Brume wins Nigeria’s first medal at Tokyo Olympics
Nigeria has its first medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after Ese Brume, in the early hours of Tuesday, claimed a bronze medal...
Olympics: Medal guaranteed as Nigerian wrestler Oborududu qualifies for final
Nigeria’s Blessing Oborodudu has qualified for the final in the women’s wrestling event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics.Her qualification guarantees Team Nigeria a...
Tokyo Olympics: Czechs offer asylum to Belarus athlete
The Czech Republic on Monday said it had offered asylum to Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya who complained her team was attempting to send her...