Reigning women football champions Canada got a lifeline at the Paris Games following a 2-1 last-gasp win over hosts France on Sunday. Spain and the U.S also claimed wins to reach the quarter-finals on the second match day of Olympic women’s football. Canada’s quest to defend their 2020...
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Nigeria’s players in the men’s table tennis event of the ongoing Olympic Games on Saturday lost their matches in the first round of the competition. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Quadri Aruna lost 3-4 in his round of 64 match at the South Paris Arena...
The International Testing Agency on Saturday said it has provisionally suspended Nigerian lightweight boxer Cynthia Ogunsemilore after she tested positive for a banned substance. The suspension has come ahead of her opening fight at the Paris Olympics. Ogunsemilore tested positive for furosemide, a diuretic on WADA’s prohibited list,...
Flagbearer Tobi Amusan and Nigeria’s team captain, Anuoluwapo Opeyori, led Nigerian delegation at a colorful and historic Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony on Friday night. In spite the rain having its way on the night, athletes were cheered along the Seine as more than 200 national delegations sailed...
Nigeria’s Super Falcons lost their 2024 Paris Olympics Games opener by a lone goal to the Canarinhas of Brazil. The game played on Thursday saw the Women African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) nine-time champions displayed spirited performance but failed to convert their chances. Rasheedat Ajibade led the Falcons...
The Federal Ministry of Sports Development and the Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) have jointly unveiled a list of 84 athletes to represent the country at the upcoming Paris Olympics. The Paris 2024 Olympics is scheduled to kick off on Friday and end on Aug. 11. Tony Nezianya, Public Relations...
French government and Olympics officials are seeking a creative solution to allow Muslim French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla wear her hijab at the Games’ opening ceremony in Paris on Friday. But they did say on Wednesday that they were still complying with the country’s secularism laws. Thousands of athletes,...
Nigeria will begin the quest for medals in the table tennis competition of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris with Quadri Aruna taking on Romania’s Eduard Ionescu on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aruna will face Ionesco in a first round match of the...
A fan invasion in the opening match of the Olympic football tournament between Argentina and Morocco on Wednesday caused chaos. But former champions Argentina were eventually beaten 2-1, following a video assistant referee (VAR) review after play was suspended with the scores tied at 2-2. Argentina’s Cristian Medina...
It is Athens 2004. The Super Falcons arrived in Athens as an emerging force in women’s football. At the time, they were already five-time Women African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) champions. Athens would be their second outing at the Olympics after Sydney 2000, where they failed to...
The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Sports Development, have appointed Tobi Amusan as the Nigerian flag bearer and Anuoluwapo Opeyori as the General Team Captain at the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Tony Nezianya, the Public Relations Officer of NOC who...
Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi will not play in this week’s MLS All-Stars Game, Major League Soccer (MLS) said on Monday. This has come eight days after the Argentine superstar left the Copa America final match with an ankle injury. Messi was listed among unavailable players for Wednesday’s match...
The Dutch Olympic Committee is taking measures to mitigate the impact of including a convicted rapist on their squad, its chef de mission said on Sunday. Steven van de Velde was sentenced to four years in prison in Britain in 2016 following the rape of a 12-year-old girl...
Team Nigeria will begin a fresh phase of participation when the 2024 Paris Olympic Games begin on July 26 in Paris, France. The Paris Olympics, which is its 33rd edition, is scheduled to end by Aug. 11 while the Paralympics is expected to hold from Aug. 28 to...
Wikki Tourists Football Club FC of Bauchi State on Thursday unveiled Abdu Maikaba as the new head coach of the club. Maikaba who was given a two-year contract, managed the club from 2014 to 2016, when he led it to the CAF Confederation Cup in his second season....
Luka Modric has signed a one-year contract extension to keep him at Real Madrid until next summer. The European champions announced on Wednesday afternoon that the Croatia playmaker, 38, was staying on. Modric signed for Real from Tottenham in 2012 and has won six Champions Leagues and four...
The senior national women teams of Nigeria and Canada will go toe-to-toe for the second time in one year on Wednesday, in a closed-doors training match in Malaga, Spain. The match, which is part of the two teams’ preparations for the upcoming Paris Olympics will begin at 6:30...
Gareth Southgate has resigned from his role as England manager on Tuesday after final loss at the European Championship, their. England lost 2-1 to Spain in Sunday’s showpiece in Berlin and the 53-year-old Englishman said after the game that he would discuss his future in charge of the...
The President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ibrahim Gusau, has urged the under 20 Female National Football team, the Falconets to remain focused in training ahead of the 2024 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals in Colombia. Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at NFF stated this in a...
Spain substitute Mikel Oyarzabal scored four minutes from time to give his side a deserved 2-1 Euro 2024 final victory over England on Sunday. It was a record fourth European crown, as Gareth Southgate’s team lost in their second successive final. Oyarzabal finished off a swift counter-attack for...