It was indeed a tournament to forget for Nigeria after ending the Paris 2024 Olympic Games 'medal-less' but some athletes of Nigerian origin shone for their respective nationalities. Nigeria took 88 athletes to the French capital for the Games but they failed to impress in their events. Athletes like Tobi Amusan, Anuoluwapo Opeyori, Quadri Aruna, Blessing Oborududu and Ese Brume failed to meet expectations as they...
Nigeria’s Elizabeth Anyanacho will kick off her participation in the women’s 67kg category with a bout against China’s Jie Song in the opening round of the taekwondo event in the Paris 2024 Olympics. Anyanacho, who has made history as the first female Nigerian athlete to qualify for consecutive Olympic Games in taekwondo, has been seeded number 10 among the 16 athletes in her weight class. The...
It is exactly a month to kick off the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification campaign and Nigeria are yet to confirm a new head coach for the Super Eagles. Nigeria, in its usual fashion, will make a late appointment for the crucial games against Benin and Rwanda in September. The last time the West African country found themselves in a similar situation, it took the...
Nigeria's women's basketball team, the D'Tigress, are faced with an herculean task in the quarterfinals of the women's basketball tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Wednesday. The six-time Afrobasket champions must find a way to defeat the best team in the world—the United States—who are on the hunt for a record-extending tenth consecutive gold medal. The D'Tigress have enjoyed historic success at the Olympics in...
World record holder Tobi Amusan sealed a spot in the semifinals of the women’s 100-metre hurdles in the Paris 2024 Olympics on Wednesday. Amusan qualified for the next round by finishing first in Heat 1 in a time of 12.49 seconds, ahead of America’s Alaysha Johnson, who clocked a time of 12.61s and Jamaica’s Janeek Brown in 12.84s. The world record-holder is safely through to the...
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