Nigeria, the only African country to qualify for the 2024 Youth Winter Olympics, is facing a major challenge: raising enough fund to send its team to...
U.S. gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton is “fighting for her life” and has been in an intensive care unit for more than a week battling a...
Athletes can wear a hijab in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games athletes’ village without any restriction, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday, days after France’s...
A United Nations body has criticized France’s ban on its athletes wearing the hijab at next year’s summer Olympics. Asked about the decision to ban French...
Aja Evans, a 2014 Olympic bobsled bronze medalist, has filed a lawsuit alleging that a doctor who worked on Team USA’s medical staff subjected her to...
The eastern grandstand of Sydney’s Olympic stadium will be named after Cathy Freeman in tribute to the Indigenous runner who won the 400m gold medal at...
Former France striker Thierry Henry has been named head coach of the country’s Under-21s until 2025, the French Football Federation said in a statement on Monday....
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On this date, 3 August 1996, the Nigeria men’s football team beat Argentina 2-1 to win the Olympic Games gold medal and became...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA It is another 2 August. It is 27 years since Chioma Ajunwa lept over 7.12 metres to win Nigeria’s first gold medal in...
Ukraine’s Olga Kharlan was invited to compete at the Olympic Games in Paris next year by the IOC on Friday after the fencer was disqualified for...
Russia, sidelined from many international sports events over the war in Ukraine, said on Thursday it would organise a competition next year for members of the...
There will be a departure from the past in the football events of the Olympic Games next year in Paris, France. For the first time since women’s...
The head of Japanese mattress manufacturer Airweave has boasted about the robustness of the cardboard beds that are due to be used during next year’s Olympics...
Ethiopia women’s team has walloped Chad 6-0 in the first leg of the Olympic qualifiers at the weekend. The aggregate winner of the clash will face...
The road to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics African qualifiers in the women’s division officially gets underway this week with some exciting clashes to look forward...
Egypt who lost to Morocco in Saturday’s final match of the U23 Africa Cup of Nations are set to include Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah in their Paris...
Like a giant star pull down from the skies, the Ghana Black Meteors were shot down by the rampaging Morocco U23 sides as the CAF U23...
Like Qatar 2022 World Cup, alcohol will not be sold in any of the venues at next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. Under a...
The road to next year’s Women’s Olympic Football Tournament for nine-time African champions Nigeria is haunted by Ghana and Cameroon, following the draw conducted in Cairo...
Nigeria’s Super Falcons will face the winners of Ethiopia versus Chad encounter in their quest to return to the football event of the Olympic Games after...
Glaring absentees from the football event of the last three editions of the Olympic Games, the Super Falcons will begin their qualification quest from the second...
A jersey worn by basketball star Michael Jordan while representing the United States during the 1992 Summer Olympics was sold at auction for $3.03 million on...
BY YINKA PADONU In a bid to foster the spirit of sportsmanship and team bonding, the Association of Professional Party Organizers and Event Managers of Nigeria...
Paris 2024 organisers have been planning to install the Olympic flame on the Eiffel Tower, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on...
The draw for the qualifiers of the Women’s Olympic Football tournament will take place on Tuesday 30 May 2023 in Cairo, Egypt. The draw will be...
South Korea and North Korea’s women’s football teams were drawn in the same group on Thursday in Asian qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The neighbours...
Former South Africa paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, jailed in 2016 for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, will ask a parole board on Friday to release him...
All the eight countries to play at the 2023 Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) were known on Tuesday night following the conclusion of the qualifying...
The dream of featuring at the Paris 2024 Olympics has ended for the Nigerian U-23 team, tagged Olympic Eagles. They stumbled at the last hurdle, crashing...
Senegal set for another dominance of African football Senegal appears on track for a fifth clinching of African title in a space of less than 13...
Like guinea fowls in encounter with Guinea, Nigeria’s Olympic Eagles set on slippery path to 2024 Olympics Kunle Solaja Your RatingUser Rating: 0 (0 votes) Nigeria’s...
The road to U23 Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2023 will climax from Wednesday as African nations prepare to kick off their quest to secure a...
Coach Salisu Yusuf BY KUNLE SOLAJA. If existing statistics are anything to go by, the Nigerian Olympic Eagles should qualify for the football event of Paris...
Head Coach Salisu Yusuf has invited 16 overseas-based players to the team’s camp in preparation for this month’s U23 AFCON final qualifying fixture against Guinea. Among...
Guinea U-23 team BY KUNLE SOLAJA. When the Nigeria’s Olympic Eagles host their Guinean counterparts in the first leg of the last lap to Morocco 2023...
CAF appoints Sudanese officials for Nigeria, Guinea U23 AFCON qualifying match Kunle Solaja Your RatingUser Rating: 0 (0 votes) The Confederation of African Football has appointed...
Moshood Abiola Stadium is Olympic Eagles’ nest in match against Guinea Kunle Solaja Your RatingUser Rating: 0 (0 votes) Nigeria’s U23 boys, Olympic Eagles are meeting...
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