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Aston Villa signed Jamaica forward Leon Bailey from Bayer Leverkusen in a reported £30 million ($41 million) deal on Wednesday. Bailey, 23, agreed a four-year contract with the Premier League club, who are preparing for the likely departure of England playmaker Jack Grealish. Grealish has been linked with a move to Premier League champions […]
Ese Brume won Nigeria’s first medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday morning. Brume jumped 6.97 meters to clinch the bronze medal in the long jump event. The world championship bronze medallist became the first athlete to claim an Olympic medal for Nigeria in 13 years. Malaika Mihambo, the reigning world champion, claimed […]
Team Nigeria’s Grace Nwokocha on Monday in Tokyo at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games advanced to the semi-finals in the women’s 200 metres event. Nwokocha ran a personal best of 22.47 seconds to finish third in heat 1 of the event to gain one of the automatic tickets to the semi-finals. Cote d’Ivoire’s Marie-Josee […]
It was another “near miss” for Team Nigeria on Monday at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as medal hope Tobiloba Amusan failed to deliver. Amusan, running from lane 6 in the women’s 100 metres hurdles final at the Olympic Stadium finished fourth after a time of 12.60 seconds. It was 0.05 of […]
US superstar Caeleb Dressel flew faster than Kyle Chalmers to add the Olympic 100m freestyle crown to his two world titles Thursday, as China’s women sparked a huge upset with a new world record to win the 4x200m relay. American Dressel missed out on the sprint medals at Rio in 2016, but he has […]
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka’s dreams of home Olympic gold were crushed by a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Marketa Vondrousova Tuesday as her return to action came to an abrupt end. Osaka, who lit the Olympic cauldron and was one of the faces of the Games, struggled in an error-strewn display that blew the […]
Nikita Nagornyy led the Russian team to men’s artistic gymnastics gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Defending champions Japan took silver and China the bronze. The Russians, competing under a neutral banner in Tokyo due to their doping suspension, last won the coveted men’s team title in 1996. The outcome of the […]
A Ugandan athlete who went missing in Japan last week after failing to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics has been found in the Mie prefecture, local police said on Tuesday. Weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko was found in the town of Yokkaichi after being registered as missing from a team training camp in Izumisano some 170 […]
The Federation of International Basketball (FIBA) on Friday released a new Olympic Power Ranking and Nigeria’s male basketball team, D’Tigers, were rated fourth. This means that out of the 12 teams featuring at the 2020 Olympic Games, D’Tigers are rated as a probable semi-finalist, which means they are in contention for at least a […]
Australian Olympic basketball star Liz Cambage pulled out of the Tokyo Games Friday, citing a struggle with her mental health fuelled by the thought of “terrifying” isolation in the Olympic bubble. Cambage — a stalwart of Australian women’s Olympic basketball team, the Opals — said she could not confidently compete on the world stage […]
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