Tokyo 2020
Blessing Okagbare, Nigerian sprinter has been handed a 10-year ban for doping violations. The 33-year-old has been handed five years for the presence and use of multiple prohibited substances and five years for her refusal to co-operate with the AIU’s investigation into her case. Okagbare was a medal contender for the women’s 100m at […]
Evangelist Solomon Ogba, the Former President of Athletics Federation of Nigeria, has assured Nigerians that Team Nigeria would surely win medals at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. Many Nigerians have become worried following the spate of defeats handed to their athletes in the different sports already decided. Sports like Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Badminton have seen […]
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 […]
Tennis star Naomi Osaka said Monday she wants to be on top form at the Olympics and will take part in press conferences, after pulling out of several tournaments citing her struggles with depression and anxiety. The world number two told Japan’s national broadcaster NHK she was getting ready to play on home turf […]
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