Sports

Paris Olympics: CSOs Pass Vote of Confidence on the Minister of Sports Development – Sen. John Owan Enoh

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 18 August 2024 0

The responsibility of the Ministry of Sports Development in our present circumstances is to provide a supervisory role as well as logistics for the prosecution of international sports competition that Nigeria is engaged in such as the just concluded Olympics. In a press statement made available

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UK govt budget £232m to support 2024 Olympic, Paralympic athletes

Ihesiulo Grace 16 August 2021 0

The British government will provide 232 million pounds ($320 million) in addition to National Lottery funding to support Olympic and Paralympic athletes for the Paris Games in 2024, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. The investment, which represents a 44% rise on the funding received by UK Sport in the run-up to the Tokyo Games, will […]

News

Co-host city of Beijing 2022 Winter Games Zhangjiakou pioneers hydrogen energy

Ihesiulo Grace 19 July 2021 0

Zhangjiakou, the co-host city of Beijing 2022 Winter Games in north China’s Hebei province, is working to deliver the Olympics in 2022 with a green approach. Since the city was approved to build a national-level demonstration zone for renewable energy in July 2015, the installed capacity of renewable energy in the city had hit 2,003 […]

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Berlin minister open to joint bid with Israel for 2036 Olympics

Ihesiulo Grace 6 April 2021 0

The sports and interior minister for Berlin, Andreas Geisel, is opened to the idea of a joint bid by Berlin and Tel Aviv to host the 2036 Olympic Games. This would “of course be a strong sign for peace and international understanding in full awareness of our painful history and the abominable misuse of the […]

Sports

Tokyo Olympics: Spectators from abroad to be barred from games this summer, says IOC

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2021 0

The IOC and local organizers announced Saturday that foreign spectators will be prohibited from attending the Tokyo Olympics when they begin in four months. The International Olympic Committee, the Japanese government, the Tokyo government, the International Paralympic Committee, and local organizers met online to make the decision. The move was expected and rumored for

Sports

Tokyo Olympics Games will be simplified, devoid of splendour

Ihesiulo Grace 11 June 2020 0

Tokyo – Tokyo 2020 Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Toshiro Muto, on Wednesday says the rearranged Olympics will “not be done with grand splendour”, but will be simplified. The Games, originally scheduled to start in July, were postponed for a year in March by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government due to the […]

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COVID-19: World Athletics Chief Calls for Olympics Postponement

Ihesiulo Grace 24 March 2020 0

World Athletics Chief Sebastian Coe has called for the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, written before Sunday’s IOC meeting, Coe said holding the Games in July 2020 was “neither feasible nor desirable” because of the global crisis. READ ALSO: Arteta […]

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Canada first out of Olympics as Japan admits Games not viable

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2020 0

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not believe the Tokyo Olympics can be held under current circumstances after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) admitted it was considering postponing the Games due to the coronavirus crisis. “If I’m asked whether the Olympics can be held at this moment, I would have to say the world is not […]

Sports

Tokyo keeps preparing for Olympics despite WHO pandemic declaration

Ihesiulo Grace 12 March 2020 0

Japan said on Thursday it would continue to prepare for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as scheduled, even after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. “There is no change to the government stance that we will make preparations for the Tokyo Olympics as planned, while coordinating closely […]

Sports

Olympics: With handclaps, help from Backstreet Boys, Tokyo mascots jet off to Europe

Ihesiulo Grace 19 February 2020 0

Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Games mascots headed out from the capital’s Haneda airport on Wednesday for a promotional tour of Europe, bemusing travelers with a ceremony featuring a clapping routine and a video message from veteran pop act the Backstreet Boys. Known as Miraitowa and Someity, the pair will touch down in six European cities on […]

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D’Tigress qualify for Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Ihesiulo Grace 9 February 2020 0

Abuja – Nigeria’s senior women’s national Basketball Team, D Tigress on Saturday booked a ticket to the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo. The team qualified despite losing 64-70 to host-Serbia in their second group game at the ongoing FIBA Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament. Mozambique’s quest to qualify ahead of Nigeria suffered a heavy knock as […]

World

Japan hopeful of developing coronavirus vaccines before Olympics – professor

Ihesiulo Grace 30 January 2020 0

Vaccines against a coronavirus that has killed 170 people in China probably will not be ready by the start of the Tokyo Summer Olympics, a professor who looked at health risks ahead of the Games said. Koji Wada, professor of public health at the International University of Health and Welfare in Tokyo, co-authored a paper […]

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Olympics: Sunday Dare inaugurates committee on preparations for Tokyo 2020

Ihesiulo Grace 29 November 2019 0

Abuja – The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, on Friday inaugurated a 12-member committee to ensure adequate preparation and participation of Team Nigeria at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The minister, while inaugurating the committee in his office in Abuja, urged members to ensure a hitchfree participation at the games. “This committee is […]

Football Sports

AFCON: How Nigeria-South Africa rivalry started – Austin Okocha

Ihesiulo Grace 10 July 2019 0

Nigeria legend Austin ‘Jay-Jay’ Okocha is looking forward to an “interesting” encounter when the three-time African champions lock horns with South Africa at the Cairo International Stadium. Ahead of the quarterfinal outing at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, the two countries had previously met in the continental showpiece twice – in 2000 and 2004 […]

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Chioma Ajunwa: Why Nigerian athletes are struggling

Ihesiulo Grace 12 April 2019

Nigerian Olympic champion, Chioma Ajunwa, has blamed the decline in Nigeria’s dominance in athletics to the way the country abandon her athletes after every tournament. “The problem is huge,” Ajunwa, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, said that they were abandoned and it is affecting the upcoming ones that are supposed to take after them. “Here […]

Sports

Boxing may be axed from Olympics

Ihesiulo Grace 5 October 2018 0

Boxing risks being thrown out of the Olympics unless the sport’s ruling body addresses “grave” concerns regarding its governance, the International Olympic Committee executive board said. A strongly worded IOC statement on Wednesday warned that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) must tackle governance issues at its upcoming congress or it could face sanctions.

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Russian lawmakers to shun Olympics if flag is not displayed

Ihesiulo Grace 9 December 2017 0

Russian lawmakers should not attend the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics to support athletes unless they are competing under the Russian flag, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian parliament speaker Vyacheslav Volodin as saying on Friday. “If we cannot ensure the possibility of our athletes competing under our flag, in the name of our country, we have […]

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Road Race: MOC Shift Base to Okpekpe

Ihesiulo Grace 1 May 2015 0

The Main Organising Committee (MOC) for the 3rd Okpekpe 10km road race has begun the final countdown for the IAAF bronze label race scheduled to hold in Okpekpe near Auchi in Edo State on May 16. Disclosing this to Extra Time, former Nigeria track and field international and two-time IAAF World Championships long jump finalist, […]

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No regret turning Pro –Franklin

Ihesiulo Grace 20 March 2015 0

In the two-plus years since Missy Franklin won five Olympic medals, she has taken hip-hop dance classes, and spent all-nighters studying with her teammates in the Cal library, fueled by coffee and cornbread. She has dabbled with spinning and pilates as supplements to her swimming regimen, but has not endorsed a single product or taken […]