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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.
Enoch Adegoke failed to deliver at the Tokyo Olympics as he pulled up injured in the final of the men’s 100 metres.
Read more: Tokyo Olympics: Adegoke fails in men’s 100m final
Henry Amike, an Olympian, on Saturday described the series of drama trailing Team Nigeria at the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympics Game, as a big disappointment.
Read more: Tokyo 2020: biggest disappointment ever — Amike, Gora
Akwa United Football Club of Uyo on Sunday won the 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), with one round of matches to go in the 38-week competition.
Read more: Akwa United win 2020/2021 NPFL with one match day to go
The Nigerian senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, are out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after losing 71-80 in their last Group B game on Saturday.
Read more: D’Tigers suffer another loss to crash out of Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Lamont Jacobs succeeded Usain Bolt as Olympic 100 metres champion on an extraordinary Sunday for Italy at the Tokyo Games.
Read more: Magic night for Italy with Olympics’ 100m and high jump gold medals
Tobiloba Amusan on Saturday in Tokyo won heat 3 of the women’s 100 metres hurdles event at the 2020 Olympic Games to advance to the semi-finals.
Read more: Amusan wins women’s 100m hurdles heat to qualify for semi-finals
A total of three Nigerian track and field athletes have qualified for the finals at the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games in Japan.
Read more: Tokyo Olympics: Amusan, Adegoke, Brume qualify for finals
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has provisionally suspended Team Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare with immediate effect after a sample collected from the sprinter tested positive for human growth hormone.
Read more: Okagbare suspended for doping violation, out of Tokyo Olympics
Enoch Adegoke raced into Nigerian history books as the third man to make the final of the 100m event at the Olympics after the duo of Davidson Ezinwa and Olapade Adeniken.
Read more: Adegoke makes Olympics history, becomes third Nigerian to run in 100m final
Following the crisis rocking the Team Nigeria camp in Tokyo, the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development says the Minister, Sunday Dare has stepped in to stem the crisis by addressing the issues.
Read more: Tokyo Olympics: Calm returns to Nigeria camp - Ministry claims
Athletes from the Nigerian contingent in Tokyo on Friday took to the streets to stage a protest over the ban of ten of them from taking part in the track and field events at the ongoing Olympic Games.
Read more: Tokyo Olympics: Nigerian athletes protest in Japan