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The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has reacted to the controversy surrounding the decision of Nigeria-born hammer thrower, Annette Nneka Echikunwoke, to compete for Team USA instead of Nigeria at the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics.
PARIS: Two-and-a-half years after competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, American and Japanese figure skaters stepped on to the podium in Paris on Wednesday (Aug 7) to receive reallocated gold and silver medals, drawing a line under a Russian doping saga that rocked those Games.
To face heavyweights U.S., Great Britain, others in first round A tough task awaits Team Nigeria’s men’s 4x100m team today in the first round of the event following their draw in a group replete with heavyweights, including Team USA, Great Britain, Japan, and South Africa. The U.S. team is complete with three individual 100m finalists, Noah Lyles, Fred Kerley, and Kenny Bednarek, while South Africa has Akani Simbine, a 100m finalist, as well as semifinalists, Benjamin Richardson and Shaun Maswanganyi, who have all broken 10 seconds in the 100m. The South Africans have done a 38.08 this year.
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PARIS : Japan's Nao Kusaka won the gold medal in the men's 77kg Greco-Roman wrestling at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, while Demeu Zhadrayev of Kazakhstan claimed silver.
Liverpool have identified Real Sociedad's Martin Zubimendi as their first major signing of the summer.
Indian boxing stalwart Vijender Singh has alleged that wrestler Vinesh Phogat's disqualification from the Olympics final might be a case of sabotage as elite athletes like her are well-versed with the techniques of cutting weight before major competitions. Vijender, who is India's first and only male boxer to have won an Olympic medal, knows a thing or two about maintaining weight before major bouts and he said it is shocking that Vinesh was 100gm over in the weigh-in before an Olympic final. "I think it might be sabotage. 100gm, you have got to be kidding me. We athletes can shed 5 to 6kg overnight. It is difficult no doubt but we know how to control our hunger, thirst, and exert to the extreme," the middle-weight (75kg) boxer told PTI.
The Trafford Centre is set to see a new addition to its ranks of cultured cuisines, with food lovers being introduced to Australian-style Sushi as part of a UK first.