Nigerian wrestler Blessing Oborududu has won the first silver medal in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Earlier, long jumper Ese Brume won the first bronze for Nigeria. Oborududu lost 4-1 to her opponent USA’s Tamyra Mensah-Stock in the final of the women’s freestyle 68kg on Tuesday. She is the first Nigerian wrestler ever to win […]
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Long jumper Ese Brume has won Nigeria’s first medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Brume, 25, claimed the bronze medal in the women’s long jump at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Tuesday. She achieved the feat with a 6.97m jump, two days after she qualified for the finals with a jump of 6.76m. Germany’s […]
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Nigeria’s fastest man, Enoch Adegoke has qualified for the men’s 100 metre final of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after clocking 1o.00 seconds to come second in heat 2 of the semi final race. Adegoke trailed Britain’s reigning European champion, Zharnel Hughes who won the heat 2 semis with 9.98 seconds. He had on Saturday defeated […]
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The hope of the Nigeria’s senior women basketball team, D’Tigress, to advance in the ongoing Olympic games in Tokyo has been dashed again. This is as the team lost 62-87 to their French counterparts in their second Preliminary Round Group B fixture at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games. D’Tigress returned to the Saitama Super Arena […]
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), has thrown his weight behind the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, even as a surge in the Delta variant drives a resurgence of COVID-19 around the world and the event faces continued opposition just days before the opening ceremony. Speaking to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) […]
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