The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Team Nigeria won two medals comprising one silver and one bronze, after being represented by 55 athletes.
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Thursday saw the highest number of positive cases, at 31, since the Games started officially on July 23.
US great Sue Bird opened the scoring less than a minute in, giving the Americans a lead which they never relinquished.
The 29-year-old, who claimed the 100m title on Saturday, has now repeated the individual medal haul she claimed at Rio five years ago. She is now the first female athlete to complete the ‘double double’ in the main Olympic sprint events.
The number was lower than Friday’s total of 27, which was the highest daily total of the Games so far.
The No. 2 ranked tennis player in the world was knocked out of the tennis tournament in the third round Tuesday by Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-4.
The American team led by eight points at half-time, but the French roared back in the third quarter where Kevin Durant ran into foul trouble.
“Who is responsible for this outfit. Come on now,” Olympic basketball player Maodo Lo said on Instagram about the mint green outfit with a rather extravagant vest and neon-coloured shoes.
This has come as Japan battles to stem rising local infections a week before the event is scheduled to start.
What usually marks the start of a cheery Olympic countdown was overshadowed by ongoing concerns of many people in the host country.
The four-time Olympic champion missed the qualifying time in an invitational 10,000m at the British Athletics Championships to suffer a devastating blow in Manchester.
Suga said in parliament that the number of officials, other staff and journalists from outside Japan will be further reduced for the July 23 to August 8 games owing to the Coronavirus pandemic.
IOC Rule 50 forbids any kind of “demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda” in venues and any other Olympic area.
Federer, 39, is making his long-awaited comeback at the Qatar Open – where he plays Britain’s Dan Evans in the second round – after two knee surgeries ended his season last year.
“My mind still stays strong, I don’t want any vaccine, I’d rather miss the Olympics than take the vaccine, I am not taking it,” he was quoted as saying in a Jamaican newspaper, The Gleaner.
Senior international Olympics official John Coates said on Saturday the delayed Tokyo Olympics could end up being the greatest Games ever, coming next year as the world emerges from COVID-19 crisis.
The International Olympic Committee announced the safeguarding of boxing at next year’s Tokyo Games but its executive board has recommended the suspension of the International Boxing Association.