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Olympians and Paralympians from across the world, including India's two-time Olympic medallist shuttler PV Sindhu, have called on the world leaders to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines.In a video produced by the International Olympic ...
Offiong qualifies, Oshonaike, Omotayo out The Punch Published 25 July 2021 Nigeria’s Edem Offiong advanced to the second round of the women’s singles event of the 2020 Olympic Games with an emphatic 4-1 win over Hungary’s Dora Madarasz at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday. Offiong, ranked 123 in the world, showed her dominance in the encounter beating the Hungarian 11-8, 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-4 to book a spot in the second round, where she will battle American Lily Zhang, who is ranked 31 in the latest ITTF rankings. The Nigerian is making her third appearance ...
Nigeria’s first Olympics medal was won at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo where the country’s representative in boxing, Nojeem Maiyegun won a bronze medal in the men’s light middleweight class. That achievement opened the door for more medals in subsequent editions with Team Nigeria’s best outing being the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where Nigeria won two gold, one silver, and three bronze medals. It was at the Atlanta Olympics that Nigeria won her first and only individual Olympics gold medal. Policewoman, Chioma Ajunwa leapt 7.2m to win gold in the long jump event. Her record stood for 25 year...
1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal because of the African boycott. This year, 60 athletes will represent Team Nigeria at the Games across 10 sports-athletics, basketball, badminton, canoe, gymnastics, table tennis, swimming, rowing, wrestling and taekwondo. But there is however less buzz around this year's Games from a Nigerian perspective after both Nigeria's team failed to qualify. Nigeria got their most memorable moments in Olympic history in football when the Kanu Nwankwo-led Dream Team went all the way to win Gold at the 1996 Olympic Games. Ka...
“I am not under any pressure, I just want to go out there and do my stuff,” he said. “I want to win a medal for Nigeria, but first I will need to get to the final. That is the first step to winning a medal. “I will be competing in six events and if I make the finals, anything can happen. I want to go out there and put all the hard work of 20 years, when I first started gymnastics, to the test. “I am not going to be concentrating on any other person. I will focus on myself and do what I have to do out there.”