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Published 12 February 2021
IN the next few months, Nigerian sport will face a huge moment of truth as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games get under way in Japan. Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youths and Sports, set the tone in December by vowing that “the days of jamborees in the Olympics are over.” By inference, the target for Nigerian athletes is to reach the podium in the events they are participating in. This is a tall order, as the sticky situations that hindered Team Nigeria in previous Games are still perceptible. To break the awful cycle of previous outings, Nigeria’s preparations need a greater impetus.
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Danyelle Wolf: The Truth About The USA Boxing Champion Jason Merritt/term/Getty Images
By Alexandra Simon/Jan. 27, 2021 3:35 pm EDT
Three-time USA Boxing Champ Danyelle Wolf is an all-around athlete. Before entering the ring, the 37-year-old Pennsylvania native spent most of her life playing all types of sports. By the time she was off for college, she was playing three sports basketball, field hockey, and track for Millersville University where she studied.
Just before her 25th birthday, Wolf picked up her first pair of boxing gloves and started her training.
By 2010, she was taking part in some hometown fights, and quickly made her way into the sport. In 2011, she was in the Olympic s first boxing trials for women. She went on to compete in other amateur boxing fights, and then the USA Boxing Nationals. Wolf won three consecutive titles in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Thursday, 21 January 2021
USA Boxing is holding a training camp in preparation for this year s Olympics in Tokyo in an abandoned department store.
National team boxers have been unable to use the facilities at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Training Center at Colorado Springs since March.
This is a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which also forced the postponement of the Olympics from 2020 to July 23 to August 8 2021.
In order to adequately prepare for the Games, USA Boxing staff moved training equipment into a department store in Colorado Springs.
Boxers and coaches are being housed at the nearby Hotel Eleganté. After spending most of 2020 waiting to be allowed entry back into our national gym at the Colorado Springs Olympic and Paralympic Training Center, it was time that we took matters into our own hands and established a training space that can properly accommodate our team’s training needs, said USA Boxing high performance director Matt Johnson.
USA Boxing Converts Abandoned Department Store Into National Training Gym for Preparations for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 01/21/21
When the boxers of the USA Boxing Olympic Qualification Team arrived in Colorado Springs, Colo. this week they walked into a new training facility with just over six months left until the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and even less time to their qualification tournaments.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, USA Boxing athletes have not been allowed to train in the national boxing gym at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Training Center (USOPTC) since March 2020, and have had to continue to make adjustments to their training plans, which included training at the French National Training Center in Paris in late 2020.