South Africa’s sprint quartet’s 4x100m gold medal at the World Relay Championships at the weekend increased their claims for a medal at the Tokyo Olympics later this year. But they’ll have to pick up the pace. South African 100-metre champion Akani Simbine showed why he is among the world’s elite sprinters as he overcame a […]
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Abuja — The minister of youth and sports development, Mr Sunday Dare, has urged athletes seeking to represent Nigeria at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to come for National Trials, warning that any athletes who failed to come for the Trials would not make Team Nigeria to the Olympics. Dare gave the warning on Monday […]
Nairobi — The Kenya Volleyball Federation has cancelled Malkia Strikers’ planned pre-Olympic training camp in Brazil upon advice from the Ministry of Health, due to a spike in infections in the South American country. KVF boss Waithaka Kioni has told Capital Sport that they made the decision after advice, with the team having been scheduled […]
“We don’t want a swimming pool, we need a hospital.” At a time Malawians are economically paralysed crashed, due to Covid 19, students dropping out due to lack of fees, potholes killing Malawians on daily basis in our, the government is spending over K9 billion for a swimming pool. There is a high-pitched chorus of […]
Following the conclusion of the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival in Benin City on Wednesday night with impressive performances by some of the athletes, the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports has now shift focus to the Tokyo Olympics. Expectedly, some of the home- based athletes who have qualified in their various events to be […]
Cameroon women’s team will miss the Olympic Games for the second time in a row, after a drab 0-0 draw against Chile in the CAF-CONMEBOL intercontinental playoff second leg on Tuesday in Antalya, Turkey. The Lionesses suffered a huge setback in the first leg, after falling to La Roja 2-1 courtesy of Camila Saez and […]
Youth and Sports Development Minister, Chief Sunday Dare, is confident Nigeria’s 13-year wait for a track and field medal at the Olympics will end this year at the Tokyo Games. Nigeria last won a track and field medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when the women’s 4x100m relay team and Blessing Okagbare (long jump) […]
ZIMBABWE’S Olympic Lyon striker, Tino Kadewere, has been ruled out of the French Cup Round of 16 match against Red Star tonight due to injury. Kadewere suffered a knock on the thigh during training on Tuesday. Lyon coach Rudi Garcia was disappointed that Kadewere joined a long list of players not available for selection that […]
The Nigerian contingent to the Tokyo Olympic Games has increased by three. Three Nigerian Wrestlers have secured spots at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. Commonwealth wrestling champions, Blessing Oborududu and Aminat Adeniyi, as well as youngster Adijat Idris displayed impressive performances at the ongoing Africa/Oceania Olympic qualifiers in Hammamet, Tunisia. Ten-time African champion Oborududu made […]
The national women sitting volleyball team will start training on March 19 ahead of Paralympic Games scheduled for August 24 to September 5 in Japan. Last week, head coach, Jean-Marie Vianney Nsengiyumva named 12 team players who were supposed to start training immediately but that was delayed because most players live upcountry, and inter-province movements […]
United States based Zimbabwean triple jump Chengetayi Mapaya enhanced his hopes of qualifying for the rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games after breaking the country’s 23-year-old triple jump record at the weekend. The 22-year-old, who is on a sports scholarship at Texas Christian University (TCU), achieved the feat at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Indoor Track and […]
The global athletics fraternity is struggling to get out of the coronavirus web. Whereas vaccination has become the song across the world, event organisers are still struggling to put races up amid restrictions. As a result, several elite marathoners have been deprived of activity. Most of them have gone a year or more without races […]
Breaking the official name for competitive breakdancing, will become an Olympic sport for the first time at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The sport is one of four new sports approved by the International Olympics Committee (IOC)’s executive board in December last year as part of a broader decision on Paris 2024’s event program and […]
With five months until the 2020 Olympic Games, Rwandan athletes’ hopes to secure qualification to represent the country at the games are in jeopardy due to failure to get competitions in which they can get qualification. The concerns were raised after all sporting activities were recently halted to contain the spike in the covid-19 infections […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee have unveiled a playbook outlining measures to deliver a safe and successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games. The Playbook, the first of a series to be published, provides a framework of basic principles which stakeholders should follow before […]
Zimbabwe’s chef de mission for the Tokyo Paralympics Games, Ignatius Vambe, says they are confident some of their athletes will qualify for the world’s biggest sporting event. The athletes are set to take part in the Dubai 2021 World Para Athletics Grand Prix next month. Zimbabwe are sending a team of 15 athetes for the […]
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Namibia: Vera and Konny – a Winning Pair
NAMIBIAN Olympian Vera Adrian and her husband, the multiple Desert Dash champion Konny Looser are not your ordinary couple. Adrian has dominated female cycling in Namibia for close to a decade and will be going to her second Olympic Games in Tokyo later this year, while Looser is one of Europe’s top marathon mountain bike […]
A group of Namibian karatekas recently returned from a three-day training camp in Johannesburg as they build up skills and experience in the hope of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Namibia is aiming to send at least two of its top karatekas to the final qualifying tournament for this year’s Olympic Games, due to […]