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Nigeria earned one silver and one bronze medals from the Games, with a slew of promising performances as a number of athletes reached the final of their events. For the first time since 1996, a Nigerian athlete was in the final of the glamour event of the Games – the men’s 100m sprint. Young hurdler Oluwatobiloba Amusan narrowly missed netting a medal as she finished fourth in the women’s high hurdles final.

US great Sue Bird opened the scoring less than a minute in, giving the Americans a lead which they never relinquished.

Below is the current medals table of the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo at the end of Sunday’s events across all the sports and at all the venues:

Nwokocha had to run a new personal best of 11.00 seconds to secure her qualification to the semifinals in her debut at the Games.

The Games started with Japan’s 8-1 win over Australia in the opening round of the women’s softball tournament.

There is hardly any place in the vast expanse of land christened ‘Nigger-area’ by Lugard’s Ms Shaw that is not under siege imposed on the country by obvious failure of governance, crass mismanagement of pluralism and diversity as well as wrong-headed expansionist and colonization ambitions. And there is no ethnic nationality that is happy and fulfilled in this joke of a ‘union’ wobbling in the dark.

The petition was signed by 350,000 people over nine days.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the tournament is scheduled to run from July 21 to August 7.

There are now just 99 days until the competition is scheduled to begin, but there are fears it may have to be scrapped with COVID cases once again rising in Japan.

This decision has come after it decided to bar international spectators amid public concerns over the novel coronavirus.

Onigbinde told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Awka that the Super Eagles would have moved beyond the first round if he had not featured in the team certain players.

“We have decided the venues and schedule, and the people involved are working on preparations, including infection control,” the Kyodo news agency quoted government spokesman Katsunobu Kato as saying.

Yuichiro Hata, who served as transport minister under the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan, was pronounced dead at a Tokyo hospital on Sunday, and COVID-19 was the cause of his death, according to Tetsuro Fukuyama, secretary general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, which he belonged to.

Rescuers found an 84-year-old man and his 59-year-old daughter late Tuesday who had been buried under snow that was believed to have fallen off the roof in the city of Iwamizawa, the local Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper reported.

Reacting to a recent feedback over the absence of some players who featured at the 2019 World Cup in China, the NBBF President, Engr. Musa Kida, explained that the exceptional quality of players ready to play for D’Tigers has made selection very difficult for the coaching crew.

According to the NHK broadcaster, the company developed the robot together with the local authorities in the Itabashi ward, a municipality in northern Tokyo, and Nihon University Itabashi Hospital.

Abe, who announced his resignation on Friday, had been all but synonymous with Tokyo 2020.

Celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Victory in Japan (VJ) Day include a fly-past by jets from Britain’s Red Arrows air force display team over the capitals of the four nations in the United Kingdom – Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and London.

The President’s message to Nweke was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Saturday.

Following an executive board meeting on Monday, the JFA withdrew its candidacy and decided to support the Australia/New Zealand bid, which will go up against a bid from Colombia.