With global excitement building ahead of rugby sevens’ Olympic Games debut at Rio 2016, World Rugby has announced the location and dates for the regional qualification tournaments that will qualify six men’s and six women’s teams to the Games. The top-four teams in the respective men’s and
The Technical Director of Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Yusuf Ali, has said Nigerians should not expect any medals from Team Nigeria athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, because medals are won by serious nations who prepare their athletes well. The African record holder in the long jump event revealed to Extra Time that […]
Ahead of this weekend’s 2016 Olympic Games qualifier against the Eagles of Mali, Super Falcons coach, Edwin Okon, says they cannot afford to underestimate their opponents. Both teams faced each other last month over two legs in the All Africa Games qualifiers, which the Nigerians won 9-1 on aggregate, but Okon says that result cannot […]
Usain Bolt, the world record holder in 100 metres and six-time Olympic gold medallist has assured that he will run at the Rio 2016 Olympics and will also run in the Bahamas next month at the IAAF/BTC World Relays. Bolt, who also holds the 200 metres world record, ran only three races last year as […]
Ahead of Rio 2016 Olympics, a Lagos-based athlete’s development outfit, “Making of Champions” has begun a two-day talent hunt of young grassroots athletes in the South East of Nigeria. The event, according to the initiator of the programme, Bambo Akani, is aimed at discovering scores of young talented athletes in parts of South East, Nigeria, […]
