Nigeria ‘Dream Team’ claimed men’s football bronze at the Rio Olympics with an entertaining 3-2 win over Honduras in Belo Horizonte on Saturday to deny the Central Americans their first ever Olympic medal. Two goals from Roma striker Sadiq Umar and namesake Aminu Umar’s fine finish early in the second-half put Nigeria 3-0 up. Honduras […]
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Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has once again proven utterly unbeatable on the Olympic track as he powered his way to a third straight 200 meters gold. And the man who said a few days ago that he wanted to race into immortality, declared at the end of the race: ‘I am the greatest’. “I don’t need […]
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Brazilian cyclist Kleber Ramos and Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi were disqualified from the Olympic Games on Thursday for having failed doping tests, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said. Ramos tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO Cera while Chen took the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide. Diuretics are outlawed as they can be used as […]
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Nigeria’s Under-23 failed to re-enact the magic of 1996, when they won the Olympic gold medal in football in Atlanta. At Arena Corinthians in Brazil Wednesday night, Nigeria’s Dream Team VI fell to their German counterparts by two goals to nil. The Nigerians were ruined by Germany’s Lukas Klostermann, who struck in the 9th minute […]
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Sports minister Solomon Dalung has sent two players and three officials of the national U-23 team back to Nigeria from the ongoing 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil. It was learnt that the two alternate players Stanley Dimgba and goalkeeper Yusuf Mohammed alongside the team’s media officer, Timi Ebikagboro, curator and the team coordinator were […]
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The Nigeria’s men national basketball team, D’Tigers, today got thrown out of the Rio Olympic 2016 with a score of 69-86 to Brazil. The team showed some signs of exploit in the early minutes of the game but succumbed and never regained its focus from the second quarter of the game. Alade Aminu, Ike Diogu, Uzoh Ben, […]
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Ex-Enyimba keeper, Idah Peterside, says the National U-23 team can win Germany when they clash in the semi-final of the on-going Rio Olympic Games on Wednesday. Peterside, also a former keeper of Israeli club, Macabi Hazelia, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on phone from Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday that the match would […]
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Usain Bolt roared into Olympic history on Sunday, capturing an unprecedented third consecutive 100m crown to confirm his place in the pantheon of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen. The 29-year-old Jamaican legend, competing in his final Olympics, powered over the line in 9.81sec, vanquishing drug-tainted American rival Justin Gatlin who took silver […]
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The Nigeria U-23 made an awesome moves into the semi final after flushing out Denmark out of the Rio Olympic 2016 with a 2 goals to Nil. John Mikel Obi made the first score, while Aminu Umar drove the match to 2 – 0. A good game from our Dream Team. Congratulations to them, and […]
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Germany flushed out Portugal from the Rio Olympic 2016 with a 4 goals to nil, the goals which was shared among four players, took Germany to the semi-finals of the Rio Olympic Game. Striker Serge Gnabry scored the opener for the Germans with a lovely angled shot seconds before half time and Matthias Ginter added a […]
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By: Rose Adegbe, The English Premier Soccer League in its 24-year history commences this weekend with the games between Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho taking centre-stage. England’s elite clubs have spent big in the hope of usurping champions Leicester City and nowhere will the battle be more intense than between Manchester City manager Guardiola and […]
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Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smashed the world record to win the Olympic 10,000 metres title on Friday, blowing away the competition in one of the greatest ever long-distance races at the Games. In only her second competitive 10,000m, Ayana dominated from the start and halfway through the race she surged away from the leading pack, injecting […]
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