Joshua, whose meteoric rise has seen him grab three of four world titles in just five years, finally met a man he couldn’t beat
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The Nigeria international represented his country at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and Rohr believes it was this decision that has led to him being sidelined at Stamford Bridge
At a news conference in Geneva, the head of WHO’s health emergency programme, Peter Salama, said: “We don’t have any confirmed cases of Zika amongst travellers or amongst indeed athletes
The Dream Team VI coach said in an interview that he no longer wanted to be involved in what he described as “a disrespectful system”
The US team of Tianna Bartoletta, Felix, English Gardner and Tori Bowie clocked 41.01 seconds, the second-fastest time ever after the world record they set in London four years ago, to beat Jamaica on 41.36 and Britain on 41.77
The sprint great has now won gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the last three Olympic Games, starting off in Beijing eight years ago and repeating the victories at London 2012
The Nigerian pugilist had a bright chance of progressing to the semifinals after he out punched his Trinidad and Tobago opponent, Nigel Paul, through a knockout in the run-up to his quarterfinals fight
At a time when Murray is looking to add Grand Slam titles to his collection, he has always stressed that retaining his Olympic title was one of his biggest priorities of 2016 and that showed during an exhilarating final played in a partisan atmosphere in Rio de Janeiro
The Jamaican sprinter never came close to breaking his own world record but a time of 9.81s was comfortably enough to see off rival Justin Gatlin
With the victory, the African champions improved to 1-3 to keep alive their hopes of advancing to the quarter-finals, with Croatia dropping to 2-2
The 31-year-old Phelps furthered his legend by winning five gold and one silver at the Rio Games after coming out of retirement in 2014
The UK-based 27-year-old Nigerian could only record a time of 104.59 in his second run in the men’s kayak singles event
A win will land Nigeria in the quarterfinals of the football event at the Olympics
Toriola, who is making a record appearance in the competition, beat Dmitrij Prokopcov of the Czech Republic 4-2 in the Men’s Singles Round One
The Nigerian side arrived few hours to kick off after several delays in Atlanta, USA
The football tournament has started two days before Friday’s opening ceremony because of a packed schedule
The Americans had no trouble sweeping through their four-game exhibition schedule and enter Rio looking like the heavy favourites to take the gold
Led by Samson Siasia, who also steered Nigeria’s last squad at the men’s football tournament of the Olympics (Beijing 2008) to runner-up spot, the African champions have self-belief they are good enough for gold in Rio de Janeiro in August
It said about 175,000 packets of lubricant are also being supplied ahead of the event holding from August 5 to 21.
The statement claims that the increase was not related to Zika, the health scare, which has caused Rio 2016 organisers a major headache
“In addition to Okagabare, Ese Brume was picked by the coach as one of the athletes that could excel at the Olympics.”