By Tana Aiyejina US tops medal tally with 39 gold medals Team Nigeria finish in 74th position As Tokyo 2020 closed in a sea of colour...
On the final day of the Tokyo Games, Olympics organisers say they have recorded 26 new coronavirus cases linked to the Games, according to Sunday’s daily...
The Olympic flag was passed to Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo for the 2024 Games at the Tokyo closing ceremony on Sunday. Hidalgo waved the flag, decorated...
Chinese athlete, Liu Shiying, has won the gold medal in the women’s javelin throw event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. The 27-year-old...
Uganda’s Peruth Chemutai has won the women’s Olympic 3000m steeplechase gold medal on Wednesday at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. Chemutai’s resilience gave...
Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church is set to become the first Nigerian clergyman to wear an Olympic medal after Nigeria’s first medalist at...
Nigeria’s Divine Oduduru failed to make the final of the Men’s 200m athletics event after coming third in the semifinals at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic...
Ese Brume has won a bronze medal in the Women’s long jump final to earn Nigeria her first at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in...
Agency Report Team Nigeria’s Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha on Monday in Tokyo at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games advanced to the semi-finals in the women’s 200 metres...
Agency Report Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs claimed Olympic gold in the men’s 100m on Sunday, breaking retired Jamaican star Usain Bolt’s 13-year hold on the blue...
Enoch Olaoluwa Adegoke suffered an injury in the Men’s 100m final, dashing Nigeria’s hopes of her first medal at the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The 21-year-old...
Agency Report Taiwan’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin were friends at school — now they’re Olympic gold medallists together after winning the men’s badminton doubles final...
Poland has clinched the gold medal after besting the United States and the Dominican Republic in the inaugural Olympic mixed 4x400m relay at the Tokyo 2020...
Agency Report Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega outsprinted Ugandan pre-race favourite Joshua Cheptegei to claim the men’s Olympic 10,000m gold on Friday. Commonwealth champion Cheptegei, who finished sixth...
Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, are facing elimination from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after suffering a 62-87 defeat to France in their second Group B...