Twenty-year-old tennis star Coco Gauff has been selected as the female flagbearer for Team USA ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on Friday, July 26. The reigning US Open champion will join Los Angeles Lakers forward and basketball global star LeBron James as Team USA’s flagbearers in Friday night’s ceremony, which will be held on the River Seine, making it the first opening...
Africa’s badminton champion, Anuoluwapo Opeyori has secured a ticket for the men’s singles badminton event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) confirmed Opeyori’s qualification after his participation in various qualifying championships. The announcement that was made over the weekend made the four-time African champion the first Nigerian player to qualify for back-to-back men’s singles event at the Olympics. Opeyori won gold...
Team Nigeria enjoyed a successful final day at the just concluded Boxing African Olympic Qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal, with six medals won: three gold medals and three bronze medals. The event, which began on September 9, came to an end on Friday, September 15, with three Nigerian boxers clinching tickets to next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, France. The trio of Omole Dolapo Joshua, Olaore Olaoitan...
The Nigerian duo of Olajide Omotayo and the legendary Funke Oshonaike have missed out on a chance to clinch a ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games following their 3-1 loss to their Egyptian counterpart on Friday. The duo lost to the Egyptian pair of Omar Assar and Dina Meshref in the mixed doubles final at the International Table Tennis Federation’s (ITTF) Africa Senior Championship held...
Male athletes have been granted permission to compete in the artistic swimming events for the first time ever at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, according to a statement released by World Athletics on Thursday. This follows the International Olympic Committee's decision to approve the request made by the world swimming body to include men's participation in the event at the Games. Artistic swimming, formerly known...
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