Russia wants to honour its successful athletes from the Tokyo Olympics with state awards, the Kremlin announced on Wednesday. Russia was not allowed to compete as a nation at the Games due to doping practices. But 335 Russian athletes who…
As the Tokyo Olympics bade farewell on Sunday, a year later than planned, organisers of the 2024 Paris Games looked forward to welcoming the world to France in three years. Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet, a three-time gold medallist in…
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, has said that it is not in possession of any contractual documents signed between it and German sportswear company, PUMA. Recall that the kit manufacturers terminated the four-year sponsorship contract worth $1.67m with the…
Team Nigeria have dropped four places on the medals table as the Tokyo Olympics enter its 12th day. The West African country fell from 64th to 68th position. No Nigerian athlete qualified for finals in Wednesday’s events. In the events…
Blessing Oborududu lost the final of the 68kg women’s freestyle wrestling event 4-1 to America’s Tamyra Mensah-Stock but won silver in the process, earning Nigeria only her second medal at this year’s Olympics. The Commonwealth champion on Monday defeated London…
As ‘Greatest Of All Time’ Alexander Zverev said he felt sorry for ending Novak Djokovic’s tilt at a Golden Grand Slam at the Olympics on Friday, hailing the beaten world number one as “the greatest of all time”. Djokovic needed…
Ten Nigerian athletes were among 18 competitors from “high-risk” nations who have been barred from the Tokyo Olympics after failing to meet requirements for out-of-competition drug testing, World Athletics’ independent anti-doping arm said Thursday. The Athletics Integrity Unit said the…
Ten Nigerian athletes have been declared ineligible to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Wednesday. AIU, an independent body created by World Athletics to manages all integrity issues – doping and non-doping,…
Nigerian athlete Blessing Okagbare has said that the sport system in Nigeria is flawed and that athletes are always at the receiving end of the damages. Okagbare stated this on Wednesday after some Nigerian athletes were disqualified from competing in…
Abiola Ogunbanwo stunned the pool on Wednesday at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre to win heat 1 of the women’s 100 metres freestyle event of the 2020 Olympic Games’ swimming competition. Running from lane 3 in the four-competitor heat, Ogunbanwo emerged…
