A record eighth Olympics Games appearance for Nigeria’s Segun Toriola was halted by Egypt’s duo of Omar Assar and Dina Meshref after Toriola and Olufunke Oshonaike lost in the mixed doubles finals of the Africa Olympic Qualifying Tournament at the weekend in Tunis.
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Yoshiro Mori, the president of the 2020 Olympic organising committee, said this at the start of a meeting with members of the International Olympics Committee and Tokyo’s city government
China has withdrawn as host of an Olympic qualifying tournament next month because of concerns about the outbreak of the new coronavirus in the country, Asian football officials said on Sunday.
Sunday Adeleye, Technical Director of the Ibrahim Gusau-led faction of Athletics Federation of Nigeria on Wednesday said Nigeria has more than enough athletes to represent her during the Olympic Games.
Nigeria and Brazil will tango in a much-anticipated encounter at the Singapore National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore, 23 years after Nigeria, on their way to winning Africa’s first Olympic football gold, spanked the Selecao in the semifinals at the Athens Stadium in the State of Georgia, USA
The Ambassador of Nigeria to Sudan, Musa Mamman, on Thursday evening praised players and officials of the U23 National Team, Olympic Eagles, for an impressive outing against their Sudanese counterparts in a 2019 U23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match in Omdurman.
Head Coach Thomas Dennerby had taken only home-based professionals to the battlefield in Blida, with foreign-based stars opting out due to club commitments
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the AFCON (1994) and Olympic Games (1996) gold medalist, was capped at both junior and senior levels for Nigeria from 1993 to 2006.
Cup holders Nigeria begin the race towards a successful defence of their Africa U23 title in Tunisia on Wednesday when they take on their Libyan counterparts in a first round, first leg encounter of the qualification series.
Olufunke Oshonaike may be making her last appearance at the global showpiece when the 2019 ITTF World Championship serves off in Budapest, Hungary next month, having made her debut at the 1991 edition in Chiba, Japan.
Nigeria’s U23 squad will take on their Libyan counterparts in the first leg, first round of the 3rd Africa U23 Cup of Nations qualifying series at the Bengerdan Stadium in Bengerdan, Tunisia on March 20.
The price tag keeps soaring for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics despite local organizers and the International Olympic Committee saying that spending is being cut.
At 43, Olufunke Oshonaike is not giving up of setting a new continental record as the first African female athlete to attend seven Olympic Games.
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The expulsion was contained in a statement by the IOC
Both cities had wanted to host the 2024 event, before LA agreed to wait an extra four years after the IOC made guarantees on funding.
He said that out of the six wrestlers – two males and four female – that featured at the Paris event, three of the ladies ended up in the top ten.
The two cities were the only ones left in the bidding, with both vying for the 2024 spot, but it seems as though a decision has been made.
NAN reports that the elections should have been held latest by December last year but it had suffered many postponements since the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil from August 5 to 21
Usain Bolt stands to lose one of his nine Olympic golds after a re-test of Carter’s sample from the 2008 Games was found to contain a banned stimulant.