Olympics

Breakdancing, surfing, skateboarding and sports climbing have all been ratified for the 2024 Paris Olympics, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said. The Paris 2024 organising committee had last year proposed the...

The Sports Ministry has announced plans for a national camp for athletes and officials in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games. Mr John Joshua-Akanji, Special Adviser (Media) to Sports...

The Tokyo Olympic Games will hold from 23 July 2021 to 8 August after being postponed for a year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The new date was announced by the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) executive board following...

President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) Hon. Daniel Igali has lauded the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Games till 2021, describing it as ‘the best thing to do’. On Tuesday, the IOC...

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is set for a definite shift to 2021 after Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe proposed the Games be delayed by one year due to the coronavirus crisis. Abe made the announcement during a conference call with...

Organisers say the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will still hold as scheduled amid uncertainty over the fate of the multi-event tournament as the Japenese government called for major events in coming weeks to be postponed, cancelled or scaled back over...

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is set to hold as scheduled despite the outbreak of the coronavirus which has already forced neighbouring China to postpone several sports events. Japan has been one of several countries hit by the virus which originated...

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has announced that it will formally inaugurate all nine Commissions that have been set up to ensure optimal running of the NOC on Wednesday, 29 January at the NOC building in...

Super Falcons’ captain, Asisat Oshoala, has identified inexperience as the reason for Nigeria’s inability to qualify for Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Nigeria’s women national team under Thomas Dennerby’s replacement Christopher Danjuma lost the qualification ticket...

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are expected to cost some 1.35 trillion yen ($12.6 billion), organisers said Friday, unveiling a final budget showing increased revenue balancing out extra costs including countermeasures against heat.