Tag: 2020 Olympic
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Tokyo 2020: Nine NBA stars make D’Tigers final squad [Full list]
Nine NBA stars have been named in D’Tigers final 12-man rooster for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by head coach Mike Brown. Brown released the list after about a month of camping in Sacramento and Las Vegas in the United States of America. Miami Heat trio Precious Achiuwa, Gabe Vincent and KZ Okpala are in…
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2020 Olympics: D’Tigers draw Australia as D’Tigress to face U.S, France
The Nigerian national female basketball team, D’Tigress, have been drawn alongside world number one U.S, European powerhouse France and hosts Japan in their event’s Group B at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. With a developing rivalry between USA and D’Tigress recently, basketball aficionados are salivating over the matchup that promises premium excitement. The last meeting although…
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Table Tennis: Nigeria still on course for 2020 Olympics – NTTF Official
Nasiu Bello, Coach for the National Table Tennis Federation (NTTF), on Tuesday denied speculations that Nigeria had crashed out of the 2020 Olympics set to hold in Tokyo. Bello told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the qualification stages for the Olympic were in five parts. He added that Nigeria had lost…
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2020 Olympics: 11 Nigerian athletes get IOC scholarship
The Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) has secured scholarship for 11 Nigerian athletes from the International Olympics Committee (IOC) ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games. Phemmy Adetula, Public Relations Officer of NOC, said in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday that the athletes were captured in the IOC scholarship scheme for 2019. The athletes that…