Great Britain has been stripped of the silver medal it won in the men’s 4×100m relay at last year’s Tokyo Olympics. The decision was taken after CJ Ujah was found to have committed a doping violation. Ujah tested positive for ostarine and S-23, which are commonly used to build muscles, after the race on August […]
On Oct. 26, China marked the 100-day countdown to the opening of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. The country’s national training teams for winter sports events and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are pushing ahead with preparations for the grand event in high spirits. Athletes, volunteers and […]
Abraham Majok, a South Sudanese 1,500m runner training in Japan for the Tokyo Olympics, aims to bring back two things to his war-torn country after the Games: an Olympic medal and a message on the importance of peace. Majok and three other South Sudanese athletes have been training in the central Japanese city of Maebashi, […]
Dubai – Iran’s only female Olympic medalist has said on social media she had left her homeland. Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh said this was because she had had enough of being used by Iranian authorities as a propaganda tool. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Alizadeh implied in an Instagram post […]
The Americans,Simone Biles total of 172.33 was almost six full marks ahead of Russia in second, with Italy beating China to a surprise bronze in Stuttgart. Great Britain finished sixth in Germany, with Olympic qualification for Tokyo 2020 already confirmed. Biles finished with a personal total of 59.733 in winning her 15th world title. The […]
Now leading US skiers Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin have joined the chorus of those backing the International Olympic Committee’s decision to ban the country from next year’s Winter Olympics. “Doping and what the Russians did is just not acceptable,” Vonn, the most decorated American skier in history, told CNN’s Alpine Edge. “We have to […]
Thirty years after the Jamaican bobsled team captured hearts around the world, three women from Nigeria stand on the brink of making history of their own in the same event. Driver Seun Adigun and brakewomen Akuoma Omeoga, Ngozi Onwumere have qualified for Pyeongchang 2018, ensuring an African nation will be represented in the sport at […]
A legend of Nigerian football, former Paris Saint-Germain playmaker Augustine “Jay-Jay” Okocha was back in France for the 12th Match Against Poverty. Answering the call of Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo, the men behind this unique initiative, the 41-year-old lit up the star-studded event and showed he had lost none of his magical skills. Sitting down […]
World’s leading brand, NIKE, is to supply kits to the value of $750,000 to the various national teams of Nigeria in the first year of the contract recently signed with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Details of the contract, signed at The Soho Hotel, Richmond Mews, London, on Thursday showed that the products value would […]
Britain’s Jessica Ennis-Hill will compete at the Anniversary Games Diamond League meeting in London’s Olympic Stadium on July 24-25. The 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion is returning to competition after giving birth to her son Reggie in July 2014. In May, Ennis-Hill, 29, will take part in her first heptathlon since London 2012 at the Hypo-Meeting […]
Six-time Olympic gold medal winner Sir Chris Hoy says Sir Bradley Wiggins has “a 99% chance” of breaking the world hour record on June 7. Tour de France winner and four-time Olympic champion Wiggins, 34, will try to beat Rohan Dennis’ mark of 52.4km (32.5m) at London’s Olympic velodrome. “If Bradley really sets his mind […]
The quaint town of Dunblane, Scotland and the entire tennis-loving world stood still on Saturday to celebrate the wedding of tennis legend Andy Barron Murray (OBE) to his long-term girlfriend, Kim Sears. The event — dubbed “the royal wedding of Scotland” — took place at Dunblane Cathedral, with cheering crowds spilling onto the streets to […]
Thirteen from among the Seventeen Africans recognised as Young Global Leaders (YGL) in 2015 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) are to benefit from the Dangote Fellowship instituted by the Dangote Foundation. The African youngsters were part of the 187 young leaders from 66 countries honoured for leadership and service to society by the WEF. […]
British double Olympic and world champion Mo Farah will open his Diamond League campaign in Doha on May 15, organisers said. Farah will compete in the 3000 metres in the opening leg of the 14-meet series, marking the 32-year-old’s first appearance in Doha. “I’ve heard so many great things about the track, the crowd and […]