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NOC reaffirms commitment to success of Nigerian Teams

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has given kudos to the athletes and officials of Team Nigeria to the just concluded Tokyo Olympics in Japan for their level of competitiveness at

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NBBF Boss exposes why Nigeria teams performed woefully in Tokyo

Musa Kida, Chairman, Caretaker Committee, Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has attributed the early ouster of Nigeria basketball teams at the Tokyo Olympics to the reduction in the number of technical

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Tokyo Olympics: D’Tigress lose final group game to Japan

Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, on Monday failed to lift their game and consequently succumbed 102-83 to their Japanese counterparts in the basketball event of the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

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Amusan narrowly misses out on women’s 100m hurdles medal

It was another “near miss” for Team Nigeria on Monday at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as medal hope Tobiloba Amusan failed to deliver. Amusan, running from lane

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Tokyo Olympic: Adegoke dashes Nigerian’s hope, fails in men’s 100m final

Enoch Adegoke on Sunday at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo failed to deliver when it mattered as he pulled up injured in the final of the men’s 100 metres.

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Tokyo Olympic: Italy’s Lamont Jacobs wins the 100m race

Lamont Jacobs succeeded Usain Bolt as Olympic 100 metres champion on an extraordinary Sunday for Italy at the Tokyo Games. It was for Italy double athletics gold within a span

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Tokyo Olympic: Dare downplays Nigerian Athletes disqualification

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has said that though the Ministry regrets the disqualification of 10 Nigerian Field Athletes, they, however, are happy that Nigeria still

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Tokyo Olympics: How Australia demystified D’Tigers in first group game

Nigeria’s D’Tigers suffered a 67-84 defeat to the Boomers of Australia in their first Group B preliminary game of the Tokyo Olympics at the Saitama Arena on Sunday. D’Tigers came

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Olympic Games: Brown rules out automatic spot for any player

D’Tigers head Coach, Mike Brown has stated that getting the best 12 players to represent Nigeria at the 2020 Olympics will not be an easy task. Evaluating the players in

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Olympics: D’Tigress get Puerto Rico, Serbia and Belgium friendlies

D’Tigress of Nigeria will be in action this weekend as arrangements have been concluded for three grade A friendlies with 2020 Olympics bound teams as the team step up their

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