At least 20 athletes from Kano Contingent have been confirmed dead following a ghastly motor accident at Dakatsalle Bridge in the Kura Local Government area of Kano State. The athletes were said to be returning from from the just concluded National Sports Festival held in Abeokuta, Ogun State, reports Saturday PUNCH. The Chairman of the [&hell...
•Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun The National Sports Commission (NSC) has barred six athletes from participating in the National Sports Festival over anti-doping issues. It said the affected athletes would not compete for medals at the games, reports Channels TV. The commission disclosed this in a statement signed by the Director of Press, K...
•Tolu Bankole The National Leader of Persons with Disabilities in the All Progressives Congress, Tolu Bankole, has welcomed athletes to Ogun State for the much-anticipated Gateway Games 2024. In a statement today, the former member of the Ogun State House of Assembly also welcomed officials, sports enthusiasts, and dignitaries from across the ...
•COVID-19 variant Three years after the Tokyo Olympics were held amid strict precautions and with no fans because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, there is now another fear of the disease in Paris. The virus has forced athletes to withdraw from events at the Paris Games and has others donning masks again, reports Reuters/NAN. This […]
•Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg (bottom C) poses with athletes as he visited with members of the royal family the Olympic village in Paris France has opened an investigation into death threats against three Israeli athletes after threatening emails were sent to the Olympic delegation, the Paris prosecutor’s office said yesterday. Interi...
•Paris Olympics athletes’ village (Christian Klaue) The athletes’ village for the Paris Olympics and Paralympics officially opened and welcomed its first inhabitants today. The village to the north of Paris will house nearly 14,500 people, including 9,000 athletes, at its peak, reports AFP. Eight days before the opening ceremony, the first tea...
Olympic chiefs announced yesterday that Russian and Belarusian athletes competing in this summer’s Paris Games under a neutral flag will not be able to take part in the opening ceremony. Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) from either country “will not participate in the parade of delegations and teams during the opening ceremony since they are...
•Late Benjamin Kiplagat Two suspects appeared in a Kenyan court on Tuesday over the murder of Ugandan Olympic athlete Benjamin Kiplagat who was found dead at the weekend with a stab wound to his neck. The two men were ordered detained for 21 days by a magistrate’s court in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret […]
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