Team Nigeria’s Grace Nwokocha on Monday in Tokyo at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games advanced to the semi-finals in the women’s 200 metres event.
D’Tigress, on Monday, failed to lift their game and consequently succumbed 102-83 to their Japanese counterparts in the basketball event of the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.
She will run from lane six against seven other qualifiers on Monday.
Enoch Adegoke has crashed out of the Tokyo Olympics 100m men’s final as he pulled hamstring metres away from the finish line.
Nigeria last qualified for Olympics 100m finals at Atlanta ’96 via Davidson Ezenwa.
Djokovic is yet to get an Olympic gold, his best being a 2008 bronze.
The Nigerian senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, lost all their group matches in Tokyo, failing to reproduce their high-flying pre-Olympics performances.
The 24-year-old African champion had reached the semi-finals of the event at the Rio Games in 2016, clocking 12.91.
Team Nigeria continue to get embroiled in controversy as it’s chances for glory dims at the Tokyo Olympics due to incompetence of officials.
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare and Grace Nwokocha on Friday qualified for the semifinals of the women’s 100 metres event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
