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Breaking: Pele out of Olympic flame lighting

Brazil football legend Pele said poor health will prevent him from lighting the Olympic cauldron at the Games' opening ceremony on Friday as he had hoped to do.

Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria drop four places on medals table

Team Nigeria have dropped four places on the medals table as the Tokyo Olympics enter its 12th day. The West African country fell from 64th to 68th position. No Nigerian athlete qualified for finals in Wednesday's events. In the events that had their finals

PSG to block Neymar, Mbappe from Olympic Games

The Olympic tournament will be held between July 21 and August 7.

Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria's D'Tigers lose again, occupy bottom spot

Nigeria's D'Tigers on Saturday lost their third Group B game against Italy in the men's basketball event at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. D'Tigers lost 71-80 to Italy on Saturday to finish bottom of their group. The defeat against Italy was their third loss

Tokyo Olympics: Africa's hopes of gold medal in football ends

Africa will not win the gold medal at this year's Olympics. This follows the exit of the continent's last two teams left. Egypt and Ivory Coast were both eliminated at the quarter-final stage on Saturday. South Africa and Zambia's women had already been sent

Brazil Defeats Germany In Penalties, Wins First Olympic Football Gold

Brazil has won five World Cups but never until that moment of release an Olympic gold medal.

Canoeing: Team Nigeria gets automatic Olympic ticket

Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Mozambique, Senegal, Kenya, and Angola are among the sixteen countries in the Olympic qualifiers.

Olympic Qualifier: Nigeria's D'Tigress beat Senegal

Nigeria's Women Basketball team, D'Tigress, on Thursday defeated Senegal 72-65 to win their first game in Group A at the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying event in Antwerp, Belgium.

Pictured! 2nd Olympic Boxer Arrested On Suspicion Of Attempted Rape

According to The Sun, Detective Rodrigo Amorim said: "I can confirm that a Namibian athlete named Jonas Junias Jonas was arrested this morning on suspicion of attempted rape of a female in the Olympic Village.

Paris 2024: Amusan, Nathaniel Qualify For Olympic Games

Former World 100m hurdles champion, Tobi Amusan, and 400m hurdler, Ezekiel Nathaniel, have secured their spots at next year's Olympic Games in Paris, France.

George Floyd: Athletes to be banned at Tokyo Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reiterated that athletes are still banned from protesting at the Olympic Games, SportingLife reports.

2016 Olympics: Oliseh to analyse two Nigeria games for FIFA

Former coach of the Super Eagles, Sunday Oliseh, will be on punditry duties for two of Nigeria's group games at the 2016 Olympics this month. Oliseh, who is already in Brazil, will analyse the Dream Team VI's opener against Japan and the match against Colombia

Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria's Enekwechi qualifies for men's shot put final

Nigeria's Chukwuebuka Enekwechi has qualified for the men's shot put final at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. Enekwechi launch hit a mark of 21.16m. The 28-year-old ranked 4th and picked up one of the non-automatic qualifying spots for the final. Enekwechi

Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare Through to Rio 2016 Olympic 100m Semifinal

This will be Okagbare's successive 100m semifinal qualification at the Olympic. She was not the only Nigerian on the tracks on Friday.

Tokyo Olympics: We're not aware of any PUMA contract ― AFN

Argentina superstar, Lionel Messi has revealed that not playing well in any football game annoys him. Messi also snubbed Sergio Ramos, who he enjoyed a fierce on-pitch rivalry with during the El Clasicos between Barcelona and Madrid, as he picked his toughest

Tokyo Olympics: PUMA to sue Nigeria after terminating $2.67m contract

The technical director of the factional Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) board, Sunday Adeleye, has said German sportswear company, PUMA, will sue for breach of contract. The kit manufacturers terminated the four-year sponsorship contract worth $1.67m

Nigeria's Chierika Ukogu Through to Final in Rio Olympic

Nigerian rower, Chierika Ukogu continues to make hew record as she made it to the final of the Women's Single Sculls Rowing event of Rio 2016 Olympic Games.