Remember these names: Odunayo Adekuoroye, Blessing Okagbare, and Tobiloba Amusan during the Tokyo Olympics. The countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is down to less than three days and more women will ably represent Team Nigeria than men. When PREMIUM TIMES ran through the list of women in Team Nigeria, we picked out these three […]
Team Nigeria have been at 16 Olympic Games and won 25 medals. It is four days before the opening of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Nigeria has been attending the Olympic Games since 1952 but Africa’s most populous nation has only 25 medals to show for these journeys. These comprise three gold medals; 10 […]
Long-distance runner John Hakizimana has said he is concerned by Rwanda’s 37-year drought for an Olympic medal as he and his counterparts seek to end the run ahead of the Olympic Games scheduled from July 23 to August 8 in Tokyo, Japan. The APR Athletics Club runner is one of the five athletes representing Rwanda […]
Gambia’s track queen Gina Bass, aka the “poor Olympian”, is one of four athletes all set for this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games as she aims to win a medal for the Gambia in the 200 metres. It’s been a hard road to the Olympic games, but of late, Bass has had a series of successes […]
Kampala — When South Sudanese refugee Paulo Amotun Lokoro fled conflict from the country’s Western Equatoria state in 2006, little did he know he eventually would participate in international sports. He simply loved football, a game he usually played with fellow refugees at the massive Kakuma camp in northwestern Kenya. But his entrée to the […]
Nigeria beat the USA for the very first time on Sunday morning. In their first tune-up game towards the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Nigeria’s men’s national basketball team, D’Tigers, sounded a note of warning to their Group B adversaries with a 90-87 win over a star-studded U.S. team. Nine years after an 83-point loss to the […]
NAMIBIA’s athletes and supporting staff for the Tokyo Olympic Games were announced at the National Olympic Committee’s headquarters yesterday. Namibia will be represented by 11 athletes and 17 supporting staff members consisting of coaches, managers, medical staff, and NNOC and government officials. In athletics, the young sprinting sensations Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi will compete […]
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to play host to Team Nigeria at the Presidential Villa on Monday where he would hand the Tokyo 2020 Olympics- bound athletes to the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) in line with age long tradition. According to the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, “we are keeping to the […]
The first batch of Team Kenya for the Tokyo Olympic Games leaves the country Tuesday evening for the Japanese capital. Team Kenya for Tokyo Olympics chef de mission, Waithaka Kioni and chief executive Officer, Wangui Kibe fly out at 6pm alongside athletes’ representative, Humphrey Kayange and Covid-19 liaison officer, Susan Adhiambo. Kioni disclosed that they […]
Kenya Lionesses head coach Felix Oloo has included three players who featured at 2016 Rio Olympics Games in his rugby sevens squad for the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Philadelphia Orlando, who is the team captain, Sheila Chajira and Janet Okello are eying a return to the Olympics due July 23 to August 8 in the Japanese […]
WORLD Athletics acted with negligence and insensitivity after inexplicably breaking a confidentiality agreement with the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) and Athletics Namibia over the handling of the Beatrice Masilingi and Christine Mboma case. Last week, World Athletics (WA) barred the 18-year-old track sensations from competing in the 400 m at the upcoming 2020 Olympics […]
The 2013 World 800m champion Eunice Sum has replaced 2016 Olympic javelin silver medallist Julius Yego as the athletics team captain for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Athletics team manager Benjamin Njoga disclosed that the 33-year-old Sum takes over in an acting capacity following the resignation of Yego, the 2015 World javelin champion. Yego took to […]
Namibia’s three-time Olympian and chairperson of the country’s Athletes Commission, Gaby Ahrens, says the withdrawal of sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi from the 400m list of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics by World Athletics should not be viewed as a racial attack on the personae of African athletes. The now-retired trap shooter, who heads the […]
IF it was not apparent before, it is now very clear that teen phenomenon Christine Mboma is a serious contender for Olympic honours. The 18-year-old decimated the women’s 400 m field at the Irena Szewińska Memorial meeting in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Wednesday evening, winning in 48,54 seconds to post the seventh-fastest mark in history. Mboma […]
IN a shocking development, Namibia’s athletics sensations Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have been withdrawn from the 400m for the Tokyo Olympics. The athletes’ coach Henk Botha confirmed the news on Thursday night, but added that he could not comment as he had just received a report from World Athletics that he still had to […]
Team Nigeria will depart for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in two batches with 61 athletes flying the country’s flag. The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development made this disclosure on Monday during a plenary meeting with National Sports Federations whose athletes qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games at the […]
Agadir — The Moroccan men’s beach volleyball team qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after winning against their Mozambican counterpart (2-1) in the final African qualifiers played Sunday in Agadir. Morocco, which beat Gambia in the semi-finals (2-0), will thus represent the African continent in this Olympic competition. The African qualifiers were attended by […]
The Head Coach of D’Tigers, Mike Brown has singled out Chibuzo Agbo for praise as the camping exercise progresses in California for the 2020 Olympic Games. Agbo who is part of the 49-man list invited to by the Nigeria Basketball Federation has been described as an all-round player that has many things to offer the […]