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olympics

September 27, 2022

Mikel Obi announces retirement from football at 35

The former Chelsea and Super Eagles player hung the boots after a 20 years career.

Mikel Obi
September 23, 2022

Delta 2022: Organisers postpone 21st National Sports Festival

Earlier scheduled for November, the 13-day tournament will now be held in December.

Team Delta at the 20th National Sports Festival
June 28, 2022

Nigeria’s 4x100m team disqualified from World Championships over Okagbare’s doping

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced that banned Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been found to have committed additional anti-doping rule violations.


Blessing Okagbare
December 29, 2021

Russia plans to bid for 2036 Olympics

Russia hosted the Olympics 1980 in Moscow and the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

Olympics rings used to tell the story.
November 26, 2021

IOC wants African country to host 2036 Olympics

Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, has expressed the hope that Africa would bid to host the Olympics by 2036.

Olympics rings used to tell the story.
August 8, 2021

Brazilian footballer dedicates Olympics gold to “Exu Laroye”

Among Afro-Brazilians, Exu is worshiped by those who practice Candomble religion similar to Esu worshipped by some Yorubas in Nigeria.

Paulinho
August 8, 2021

Kenya’s Kipchoge third runner ever to win back-to-back Olympic marathon gold

Kipchoge’s feat follows in the footsteps of 1960 and 1964 champion Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia and East German Waldemar Cierpinski, who won in 1976 and 1980.

Eliud Kipchoge
August 8, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: World Athletics president hails ‘hospitable’ Japanese people

Three world records, 12 Olympic records, 28 area records and 151 national records were set during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Sebastian Coe
August 6, 2021

Ex-Sports minister Solomon Dalung slams Sunday Dare as incompetent, corrupt

Mr Dalung said “The entire drama of shame is avoidable. This is a shame that the country has found itself.”

Solomon Dalung and Sunday Dare
August 1, 2021

Nigeria’s Enoch Adegoke crashes out of 100m final with injury

Enoch Adegoke has crashed out of the Tokyo Olympics 100m men’s final as he pulled hamstring metres away from the finish line.

Enoch Adegoke