Tokyo Olympics
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Football
Alves leads Brazil to back-to-back Olympic football Gold medals
Dani Alves captained Brazil to football glory at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after a 2-1 victory over Spain in the…
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Basketball
USA defeats France to claim Gold in Men’s Basketball at Tokyo Games
USA defeated France 87-82 in the final match of the men’s basketball tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to pick…
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9ja Flavour
Last Team Nigeria member loses in women’s 50kg wrestling quarterfinals
Team Nigeria’s last participant at the Tokyo Olympics Adijat Idris fell to defeat at the hands of Ukraine’s Oksana Livach…
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9ja Flavour
Enekwechi disappoints in shot put final at Tokyo Olympics
Nigeria’s hopes of picking up a third medal on Day 14 were dashed after Chukwuebuka Enekwechi could not manage the…
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9ja Flavour
Shock as Adekuruoye falls at first hurdle in women’s 57kg wrestling
Team Nigeria suffered a number of back-to-back disappointments after the euphoria of winning two medals in a single day, with…
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9ja Flavour
Oborodudu claims silver for Nigeria’s first-ever wrestling Olympics medal
32-year-old Blessing Oborodudu has accomplished what no one else has by winning an Olympic medal for Nigeria in wrestling. The…
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9ja Flavour
Joy, despair in Team Nigeria camp as Brume leaps to bronze, Adeniyi falls in wrestling QF
Team Nigeria got its first medal after Ese Brume delivered an impeccable performance in the women’s long jump to finish…
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9ja Flavour
Disappointment as Amusan finishes outside podium places in 100m hurdles, D’Tigress crashes out of Olympics
There was a great deal of disappointment as Oluwatobiloba Amusan failed to win a medal in the final of the…
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9ja Flavour
Adegoke, Amusan zoom into Olympics finals
Nigeria’s chances of finishing with medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have received a significant boost after the trio of…
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Opinion
Mental health issues in sports; athletes are humans too
Being healthy is defined as being physically, mentally, and emotionally completely free from disease or defect. Mental health is a…
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Other Sports
Shambolic Team Nigeria showing in Tokyo, an exposè on events
Team Nigeria’s time in the Japanese capital city of Tokyo at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games has been riddled with…
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9ja Flavour
Amusan breezes through Heat, books place in 100m Hurdles semifinals
Nigerian hurdles queen and Commonwealth gold medalist Tobi Amusan has booked her place in the semifinals of the women’s 100m…
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9ja Flavour
D’Tigers crash out of Tokyo Olympics after defeat to Italy in final Group B match
Nigeria’s D’Tigers bowed out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after suffering a third defeat in three Group B matches at…
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9ja Flavour
Team Nigeria delivers mixed performance on Day One of Athletics events
Nigeria’s track and field team had a mixed day on the eighth day of events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics…
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Tennis
Zverev ends Djokovic bid for Golden Slam, slams him out in semifinal
Germany’s Alexander Zverev denied world number one Novak Djokovic the opportunity to write his name in the history books as…
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9ja Flavour
Okagbare breezes through 100m heat, qualifies for semifinals
Four-time Olympian and Commonwealth double gold medallist Blessing Okagbare made light work of her qualification in the 100m Heat 6…
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NEWS
Usoro, Ofili headline list of disqualified Nigerian athletes
Nigeria’s Sports administrators have a case of negligence to answer after 10 medal hopefuls were kicked out of the Tokyo…
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9ja Flavour
Okagbare blows hot over Nigerian athletes’ disqualification in Tokyo
Nigerian sprint queen Blessing Okagbare has openly criticised the leadership of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria after several unfortunate administrative…
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Basketball
Disappointment as D’Tigers fall to second consecutive defeat at Tokyo Olympics
Nigeria’s D’Tigers were on the losing side once again as they took on Germany in their second preliminary round match…
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Basketball
Valiant D’Tigress falls to USA in Olympic Games opener
Nigeria women’s basketball team D’Tigress lost to the World’s number one ranked team USA in their Tokyo Olympic Games preliminary…
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NEWS
World number two Osaka dumped out of Olympics by Vondrousova
World number two Naomi Osaka was sent crashing from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by world number 42 Marketa Vondrousova in…
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Basketball
Champions USA lose to France in Olympics basketball opener
The USA lost 83-76 to France at the Saitama Super Arena in their opening Group A encounter at the Tokyo…
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Basketball
Aussies defeat D’Tigers 84-67 in Group B Olympics opener
Nigeria’s male basketball team D’Tigers has lost its opening match at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to the Australian Boomers 84-67…
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NEWS
World number one Barty stunned by Sorribes in Olympics first round exit
Australia’s women’s tennis world number one, Ashleigh Barty, endured a disastrous outing in her first-round meeting against Spain’s Sara Sorribes…
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Tokyo Olympics
Africa’s sole representative Zambia hit for 10 by Netherlands
The Tokyo Olympics got underway with the women’s football event witnessing two surprise results on the opening day. First, four-time…
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Basketball
D’Tigers ranked fourth best team in Olympics in FIBA Power Rankings
Despite being ranked 22nd in the world, Nigeria’s senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, has been listed as the fourth-best team…
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NEWS
Federer announces decision to pull out of Tokyo Olympics
Men’s tennis world number 9 and twenty-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer has announced his decision to pull out from…
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Basketball
D’Tigers smash Argentina to make it two exhibition wins from two
Nigeria’s male basketball national team, D’Tigers, pulled off a brilliant win in their second exhibition game ahead of the Tokyo…
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NEWS
Quadri books third consecutive Olympics appearance
Nigeria and Africa’s top-ranked Table tennis star Aruna Quadri has been confirmed as one of the qualifiers for the Tokyo…
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