Tag: Tokyo Olympics
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Tokyo Olympic Games: Reps to probe Sports Ministry on failed doping test
The House of Representative has mandated its committee on Sports to investigate the immediate and remote cause of the failed doping test to forestall future occurrence. The House also called for investigation into the activities of the Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth Development on failed doping test by Nigeria athletes at the Olympic games…
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A Message from Tokyo, By Dennis Onakinor
Of the 11,326 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees that competed in 339 events at the just-concluded 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo – Japan, two gold medalists, Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and MutazEssa Barshim of Qatar, stand out amongst the 2,175 medal winners. Their win was outstanding not because the high jump event in which…
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Nigeria officially ends Tokyo 2020 Olympics campaign with two medals
Wrestler Adijat Idris lost out to Ukraine’s Oksana Livach in the quarter-final of the 50kg women’s freestyle event on Friday morning to end Nigeria’s hopes of adding more medals to its cabinet at the Tokyo Olympics. Livach defeated the 19-year-old 10-0 by technical knockout, meaning Team Nigeria ended the Games with two medals. Nigeria’s only…
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Women’s Olympic Football final: Canada edge out Sweden in penalty shoot-out
Canada beat Sweden on penalties to win women’s football gold at Tokyo 2020. It marks a first Olympic gold in the competition for the Canucks, who won successive bronze medals in London and Rio. The game went to extra time after Canada’s Jessie Fleming equalised from the penalty spot to cancel out Stina Blackstenius’ opener.…
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Tokyo Olympics: PUMA abruptly terminates four-year $2.67m contract with Nigeria
German sportswear manufacturing giants PUMA has terminated its four-year contract with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN). The termination of the deal comes amidst an alleged leadership tussle between the Ibrahim Gusau-led AFN board and that headed by the Minister for Youths and Sports, Sunday Dare. Consequently, the minister is said to have vowed that…
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BREAKING: Blessing Oborududu makes history, hands Nigeria second medal at Tokyo Olympics
Team Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu on Tuesday won a silver medal in the women’s freestyle 68kg wrestling category. She had guaranteed Nigeria a medal on Monday after beating Mongolia’s Battsetseg Soronzonbold to reach the final. Although she lost the final to USA’s Stock Mensah Tamyra Marianna 4-1, the 32-year-old can be proud of her achievement after…
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Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria’s Aminat Adeniyi loses opening round fight in women’s freestyle 62kg
Aminat Adeniyi on Tuesday lost in the round of 16 of the women’s freestyle 62 kg event of the wrestling competition at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Adeniyi lost to Iryna Koliadenko of Ukraine by a pinfall in the fight at the Makuhari Messi Hall. The 28-year-old Nigerian was leading 4-2 on technical…
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JUST IN: Ese Brume wins Nigeria’s first medal at Tokyo Olympics
Nigeria’s Ese Brume has won a bronze medal in the Olympic Long Jump event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Brum qualified for the final stage on Sunday morning after she leapt to a distance of 6.76m, 1cm more than the required mark to seal her place. Brume, clinched the bronze medal with a 6.97m…
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Tokyo 2020: Oborodudu guarantees Nigeria first Olympics medal
Finally Team Nigeria is guaranteed a medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, thanks to Blessing Oborodudu for winning her semi-final wrestling bout against Mongolia’s Battsetseg Soronzonbold. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Oborodudu won her semi-final bout against Soronzonbold in the women’s 68 kg wrestling to guarantee Nigeria gold or silver in the final. Oborodudu beat Soronzonbold 7-2…
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Tokyo Olympics: Amusan misses out on women’s 100m hurdles medal, Nwokocha advances to 200m semi-finals
It was another “near miss” for Team Nigeria on Monday at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as medal hope Tobiloba Amusan failed to deliver. Amusan, running from lane 6 in the women’s 100 metres hurdles final at the Olympic Stadium finished fourth after a time of 12.60 seconds. It was 0.05 of a…