Next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing will be held without spectators from overseas with tickets restricted to fans living in China because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Olympic Committee said Wednesday. The IOC said only fully vaccinated participants would be exempt from a 21-day quarantine. Athletes who can provide a “justified medical exemption” will […]

Simone Biles is speaking about the Olympics and why she feels she should have stepped away. The 24-year-old told The Cut’s Camonghne Felix, “If you looked at everything I’ve gone through for the past seven years, I should have never made another Olympic team.” Biles continued, “I should have quit way before Tokyo, when Larry […]

Ethiopia’s double Olympic gold medallist Derartu Tullu has visited four of the country’s top runners to share the joys of motherhood after they gave birth in recent months. The four include Sofia Assefa, who won silver in the 3000m steeplechase at 2012 London Olympic Games, World Athletics Championship bronze medallist Belaynesh Oljirra, as well as […]

Simone Biles is clapping back at her critics yet again … this time shutting them down in savage fashion by saying, “I can’t hear you over my 7 Olympic medals.” Biles — apparently still hearing from trolls for the way she pulled out of several events at last month’s Tokyo Olympics — posted the fiery […]

The final act of the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics came Sunday, almost eight years to the day after the Japanese capital was awarded the Games. The Paralympics ended a 13-day run in a colorful, circus-like ceremony at the National Stadium overseen by Crown Prince Akishino, the brother of Emperor Naruhito. The Olympics closed almost […]

Sarah Storey won her 17th Paralympic gold to become Great Britain’s most successful Paralympian of all time. The 43-year-old defended the women’s C4-5 road race title she has held since London 2012 to put her one gold ahead of previous record holder Mike Kenny. Britain’s Crystal Lane-Wright finished seven seconds behind to take silver. It […]

It was in the stands of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium that David Brown’s dreams of a career in track and field started to take hold. Brown, who has been blind since the age of 13, remembers taking in the “spots and colors” of the Paralympic Games in Beijing as his friends dictated what was happening […]

Latifat Tijani has won Nigeria’s first gold medal at the ongoing Tokyo Paralympic Games. She won the gold on Thursday in women’s 45kg powerlifting. Tijani defeated China’s Zhe Cui to lift 107kg.

Japan’s emperor declared the Tokyo Paralympics open in a nearly empty stadium on Tuesday, with athletes ready to defy stereotypes and shatter records despite a year-long pandemic delay. Emperor Naruhito made the announcement surrounded by banks of vacant multi-coloured seats at Tokyo’s 68,000-capacity Olympic Stadium, with virus rules banning spectators from almost all Games events. […]

British sprinter CJ Ujah, who won an Olympic silver medal in the 4x100m relay in Tokyo, has been provisionally suspended for an alleged anti-doping breach, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced. If the case is proven, then 27-year-old Ujah and the British team will be stripped of the silver they won behind Italy in Japan. […]

Finally, Joshua Cheptegei is an Olympic champion after winning 5000m Olympic Gold. The 5,000m world record holder is the Tokyo Olympics champion after clocking 12:58.12 to win the men’s final race at the Olympic Stadium here on Friday. Cheptegei, the world record holder over the 5,000m, won silver behind Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega in the 10,000m […]

British cyclist Laura Kenny won her fifth Olympic gold medal on Friday, powering to victory alongside Katie Archibald in the first women’s Madison at a Games. Kenny and Archibald, now a two-time Olympic champion, won 10 of the 12 sprints to finish on 78 points, 43 clear of Denmark, who took silver. The Russian Olympic […]

Japan’s Sakura Yosozumi won the women’s park competition to maintain the hosts’ stranglehold on Olympic skateboarding on Wednesday and stop Kokona Hiraki and Sky Brown becoming the Games’ youngest-ever gold medallists. The 19-year-old carved up the Ariake Urban Sports Park with a flowing opening run in the final and her 60.09 points proved enough for […]

After Tamyra Mensah-Stock won gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on August 3, becoming the first Black woman wrestler to do so, UFC President Dana White was among those congratulating her. Tamyra Mensah-Stock’s historic moment at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was not lost on her or the wrestling community. The 28-year-old American athlete became the […]

Ese Brume won Nigeria’s first medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. She took bronze after leaping 6.97 metres to come third in the women’s long jump event. Germany’s Malaika Mihambo bagged gold. It is Nigeria’s first track and field medal at the Olympics since 2008 when Okagbare won a silver medal in Beijing. Boxing […]

Less than 12 hours after falling in the first round of the women’s 1,500 meters but getting back up to win her heat, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands won gold in the women’s 5,000 meters. “It has been an amazing day,” Hassan told reporters afterward. “When I fell down and had to jump up I […]

Nigeria’s Ese Brume has qualified for the final stage of the event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Brume finished fourth in Group B with a 6.76m jump to take the final spot early on Sunday morning. She had the fourth overall best Jump among the finalists. Reigning World Indoor champion, Ivana Spanovic, was […]

Namibia’s Beatrice Masilingi is getting ready for the biggest moment of her young athletics career having had to recover from her most upsetting one.The 18-year-old says she is thrilled to be competing in the women’s 200m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics when the heats begin on Monday.But the 200m is only a second choice event […]

Boxer Samuel Takyi has guaranteed himself at least a bronze medal to secure Ghana’s first Olympic medal since the men’s football team won bronze at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.South Arica’s Wayde van Niekerk qualified for Monday’s semi-finals of the men’s 400m as he bids to retain his Olympic title.Five African athletes will be in […]

Sprinter Blessing Okagbare is out of the Tokyo Olympics after being suspended for failing a drugs test.The Nigerian – a rival to Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith – had won her 100m heat on Friday and was due to race in the semi-finals on Saturday.The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said the 32-year-old had tested positive for […]

Dina Asher-Smith started her bid to become the first British woman to win an Olympic individual sprint gold with routine progress from the 100m heats. Asher-Smith finished behind American Teahna Daniels but reached the semi-finals with a run of 11.07 seconds. Team-mates Daryll Neita and Asha Philip also finished second in their heats to qualify […]

A group of Nigerian athletes – who were ruled ineligible to compete at the Olympics in Tokyo – have held a protest in the Japanese city. On Wednesday, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) ruled that a total of 20 competitors, including 10 from Nigeria, would be unable to take part in the competition because of […]

At the Tokyo Olympics, South Africa had its first female gold medallist in swimming for 25 years. Tatjana Schoenmaker set a new world record in the women’s 200m breaststroke final. She’s the first woman to swim under 2:19. On Tuesday, she won silver in the 100m event. Her 100m Olympic medal was the first by […]

China held off a late surge by the USA to win the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay in a world-record time at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. The Chinese touched home in seven minutes 40.33 seconds, beating the record held by Australia by 1:17. USA (7:40.73) took the silver medal while the bronze went to Australia […]

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles has reacted to the widespread support she has received after withdrawing from Thursday’s all-around final. The American gymnast pulled out of the competition saying she needed to prioritise her mental health, a move that has brought praise from high-profile figures in sport, entertainment and politics. The 24-year-old said the […]

The sports director of the German Cycling Union has been sent home from the Tokyo Olympics after making racist comments during Wednesday’s men’s road time trial. Patrick Moster was caught making the remarks on German TV. Moster reacted as Germany’s Nikias Arndt chased Algeria’s Azzedine Lagab and Eritrea’s Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier. In a statement, the German […]

American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles has withdrawn from Thursday’s individual all-around final in Tokyo. Biles, the most successful US gymnast of all time, said she had to focus on her mental health after pulling out of the women’s team final on Tuesday. The head of the US Olympic team and fellow […]

Superstar gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from the team competition in Tokyo on Tuesday with “a medical issue,” according to USA Gymnastics. Biles walked off the floor with her trainer after competing in the vault on Tuesday. Teammate Jordan Chiles then filled in for Biles on the uneven bars. “Simone has withdrawn from the team final […]

Japanese star Naomi Osaka crashed out of the Olympics tennis competition on Tuesday after Flora Duffy delivered gold for Bermuda for the first time in the tiny island’s history. Osaka, who lit the Olympic cauldron in last week’s opening ceremony, produced an error-strewn performance in losing 6-1, 6-4 to Marketa Vondrousova, ending her cherished dream […]

Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, on Monday, won The Philippines’ first ever Olympic gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The Olympic gold medal has eluded the Southeast Asian country since it made its debut at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Diaz won gold in the 55-kilogram category of women’s weightlifting. She also set an Olympic record […]

Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi won silver for Tunisia after finishing runner-up to Italy’s Vito Dell’Aquila. Tunisia’s Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi won Africa’s first medal of the 2020 Olympics when taking silver in the men’s taekwondo 58kg category on Saturday. Jendoubi was guaranteed silver as he took on Italy’s Vito Dell’Aquila, who secured the gold, in the final. […]

Ice-cold Chinese shooter Yang Qian claimed the first gold of the Tokyo Games on Saturday, keeping her cool while Russian Anastasiia Galashina lost hers in a dramatic finale. Galashina had looked poised to claim gold heading into the last shot but stumbled with 8.9 on her final effort to allow Yang to seal victory. Yang […]

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito officially opened the Tokyo Olympics on Friday in a nearly empty stadium after the Games were postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. “I declare open the Games of Tokyo,” Naruhito said during a three-hour ceremony attended by just a few hundred officials and dignitaries and several thousand athletes in […]

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron as the Tokyo Games opened on Friday after a year’s pandemic delay and lingering coronavirus threats. Osaka lifted the torch to the gleaming cauldron, which had unfurled at the top of a ramp representing Mount Fuji, in the highlight of a ceremony that was stripped back […]

A Ugandan weightlifter that went missing from a pre-Olympics camp in western Japan has been flown home a few hours before the official start of the Games. Julius Ssekitoleko is currently being held at Uganda police headquarters to determine whether or not he had committed a crime, CID Spokesperson Charles Twino said. He left the […]

Integral, Nigeria’s leading sports marketing and Management Company, has secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 on free-to-air television. This is contained in a Press statement distributed by APO Group on behalf of Integral. This sub-license deal from In front, a Wanda Sports Group company and the IOC’s exclusive rights holder […]

Guinea which had cancelled its participation in the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday due to Covid-19 concerns, announced earlier it would finally take part in the competition. The government, after securing guarantees from the health authorities, approved the participation of its athletes in the 32nd Olympiad in Tokyo. It also confirmed to send a small delegation […]

Tokyo Olympics organisers have fired the opening ceremony director after historical footage emerged of Kentaro Kobayashi making jokes about the Holocaust. A clip was widely shared on Japanese social media on Wednesday, July 21, showing the comedian Kobayashi in a 1998 TV skit which included the line “Let’s play Holocaust”, and there were strong calls […]

Despite warnings to participants to “avoid unnecessary forms of physical contact” at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, organisers are expected to hand out 160,000 branded condoms. Thousands of athletes will stay at the Olympic Village during the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Games, which start on Friday, July 23rd, and ends August 9th; and the Paralympics from August […]

Tokyo Olympics organizers revealed the first COVID-19 case in the Games Village on Saturday as they sought to reassure competitors that the pandemic-delayed event would be safe. Six days before the opening ceremony, organisers said an unnamed person had tested positive for coronavirus in the Village, where thousands of athletes and officials will stay during […]

A Ugandan athlete is missing from a pre-training camp in Japan ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games, says the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC). A delegation which included coaches, boxers, a swimmer and a weightlifter have been preparing in Izumisano, Osaka, since late June for the delayed Games, which begin on 23 July. “The member is […]

A member of the Nigerian Tokyo Olympics delegation became the first Olympics visitor admitted to hospital with Covid-19, Japan’s TV Asahi reported on Friday, as Japan battles to stem rising local infections with the Games a week away. The person, a non-athlete in his 60s, tested positive on Thursday evening at the airport and had […]

The Olympic torch relay has been scrapped on Tokyo’s public roads, officials announced this week, as virus concerns continue to plague the Games just over two weeks before they begin. Private flame-lighting ceremonies will replace public relay events across the capital beginning Friday, the Tokyo city government said. Right up to the opening ceremony on […]

The first batch contingent of Team Nigeria has left for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team members departed on Tuesday, July 6, through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. The Director, Federation of Elites Athletes Department (FEAD), Simeon Ebhojiaye in a statement explained that the members include the Canoeing team; Ayomide Bello and her […]

The 2013 World 800m champion Eunice Sum has replaced 2016 Olympic javelin silver medallist Julius Yego as the athletics team captain for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Athletics team manager Benjamin Njoga disclosed that the 33-year-old Sum takes over in an acting capacity following the resignation of Yego, the 2015 World javelin champion. Yego took to […]

Simone Biles punched her ticket to the Tokyo Games, easily winning the US women’s all-around title at the US Olympic Gymnastics Trials in St. Louis. Biles, who are likely competing domestically for the final time, won the all-around with 118.098 points to finish 2.66 ahead of Suni Lee, who finished with 115.832 points. Lee will […]

Japan’s Olympic chief said there was “no way” to ensure zero virus cases among teams arriving for the Tokyo Games, as officials prepare to tighten screening procedures. Japanese Olympic Committee president Yasuhiro Yamashita said “thorough measures” would be necessary at airports, after two members of Uganda’s team tested positive last week following their arrival in […]

Team Nigeria’s women 4x400m relay team will be among the 16 nations that will file out for the event at the delayed 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo, Japan after the team scorched to a 3:26.84 African lead at the Lagos Open Athletics Championship in Lagos. The team, anchored by Patience Okon-George has now jumped to […]