•India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Commonwealth Games logo India says it will bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games, seen as part of a wider push by the cricket-mad nation to host the 2036 Olympics. “Our preparations will go ahead,” Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha said after a meeting yesterday, according to local [&hel...
American transgender women will no longer be able to compete in women’s events at the Olympics and Paralympics after a recent policy change by the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). A new note on the USOPC website regarding the participation of transgender athletes in sports says: “As of July 21, 2025, please refer to […]
•Tourists take photos with a New Year 2025 numerals decoration displayed next to Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi today, Tuesday, December 31, 2024 Crowds will marvel at fireworks and toast champagne to greet 2025 today, Tuesday, waving goodbye to a year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return, and turmoil in the Middle […]
•Late Rebecca Cheptegei The man who attacked Ugandan runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died from injuries sustained when he poured petrol over the Olympic athlete, the Kenyan hospital treating him said today. Police said that Dickson Ndiema Marangach assaulted Cheptegei in her home in western Kenya on September 1. The mother-of-two sustained 80 per...
•Late Maiyegun Nojim Maiyegun, Nigeria’s pioneering Olympic medalist, has died at the age of 84. Maiyegun made history by winning a bronze medal in light-heavyweight boxing at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a feat that earned him a place in the country’s sporting hall of fame. According to a Facebook post by his acquaintance, Rudolfine Soultan, [&he...
•Favour Ofili Nigerian sprinter Favour Ofili has said her experiences at the just-concluded 2024 Olympic games in France have made her realise how strong she is to confront life’s challenges. In a series of tweets on X, Ofili said she was proud of her outing at the games despite the unfavourable outcome. “It’s easy to […]
•Peter Obi and Nigerian Olympics Team Politician and presidential candidate for the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has reeled out some lessons Nigeria should take into cognizance in the wake of its poor performance at the just-concluded 2024 Paris Olympics. In a series of tweets on his official X handle […]
•Nigerian-born athletes at Olympics The Paris Olympics may have ended with Team Nigeria winning no medal in what has been described as one of the country’s worst outings. However many athletes of Nigerian descent competed for other nations and had a podium finish, reports Channels TV. Some heartbreaking misses and what many have pegged as [&he...
Nigeria has ended the 2024 Paris Olympics without a medal. Hannah Reuben lost her Women’s Freestyle 76kg fight early yesterday to effectively put the country’s slim hope of making the podium to rest. She lost 5-2 to Mongolia’s Enkh-Amaryn Davaanasan in the round of 16 tie, capping off a woeful showing for the West African […]
•Nigeria’s 4x100m men’s relay team The quartet of Emmanuel Ojeli, Ezekiel Nathanial, Dubem Amene, and Chidi Okezie, have been disqualified from the men’s 4x400m relay at the Paris 2024 Olympics today. … developing story
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