Tag: Athletics
Cocaine Trafficking: Ex-Nigerian Player Docked
Former Nigerian footballer, Daddy Augustine Okeke is in trouble in faraway Malta over an alleged trafficking in cocaine. According to…
NOC Wants Early Preparation For Commonwealth Games
The Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC,is planning to start early preparations for the athletes that would represent the country at the…
Lagos To Recruit Coaches For Sports Associations
In its bid to consolidate on the success recorded at the last National Sports Festival, Lagos State Government is set…
How Athletics Can Rise In Nigeria Again
When it comes to athletics in Nigeria, you are a force to be reckoned with, how do you feel? It…
AYC: AFN Won’t Select Overage Athletes
The Athletic Federation of Nigeria, AFN has said it has put in place measures to guard against age-cheats at the…
Nigeria Athletics Stakeholders plan for 2013
Nigeria fared woefully in athletics fared in 2012 and as year 2013 knocks at the door, the stakeholders say there…
Africans win Brussels last IAAF event
Kenya’s Gilbert Kirui and Ruti Aga of Ethiopia, both teenagers, have won the men and women’s events, respectively, at the…
End Of Year Review (3rd And 4th Quarters): Okagbare, Others Fumbled
The London 2012 Olympic Games, which fell into the third and fourth quarter of the outgoing year under review, will…
Nigeria’s Paralympians Are Hero Of 2012
Though Nigeria could not record any meaningful achievement in normal sports in the outgoing year, the country’s contingent to the…
Bolt, Allyson win athletes of the year
(AFP) – Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix were named the International Amateur Athletics Federation’s athletes of the year on Saturday.…
Bolt eyes more gold at Commonwealth Games
Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt now wants to add Commonwealth Games gold to his medal haul after…
Ekiti’s 150-Man Team Ready
The Ekiti State Director of Sports, Olukayode Adewunmi, said that Team Ekiti’s compact 150-man contingent for the 18th National Sports…
‘Sports And Education Should Go Together’
Team Nigeria’s 200m athlete to the last London 2012 Olympic Games, Noah Akwu has advised the Federal Government to work…
Americans don’t like Jamaican speedsters, says Blake
Americans need to get used to Jamaica’s men dominating the global sprinting scene, because it will not change soon, Jamaican…
Igwe Explains Okagbare’s Flop
The London 2012 Olympic Games may have come and gone, but reactions are still trailing the inability of Nigeria and…
HELL IN THE RING: Fans Enjoy Bouts, But Boxers Suffer It All
Every profession has its own hazards, and sports generally are no exception. But, boxing ranks high as a dangerous sport.…
200 Athletes For Summer Camping
A summer camping is to be organised for athletes of the Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme during the long vacation of schools…
Doping: 6 Athletes Banned For 2 Years
Indian athletics’ biggest doping scandal involving six top women athletes, including three Asian and Commonwealth Games gold medallists, ended with…
Gemili Aims To Break Record
Adam Gemili hopes to break the 10-second barrier soon as the teenage sprinter prepares to make his Olympic debut in…
Dumping Nigeria Pays Off For Makinde
As a standout sprinter and hurdler in his final year of high school, Segun Makinde was well known in track…
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Okagbare fastest in London Diamond League
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare scored a surprise victory in London today in the women’s 100m,after upstaging a strong field which included…
IAAF Prepares For 100th Anniversary
The Headquarters of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is preparing for some very special birthday celebrations next week…
‘I’m Born To Rule’
Nigeria’s 200m bronze medalist to the 2012 African Athletics Championships in Athletics, Noah Akwu has disclosed that he was born to…
Gaisah Upbeat About Chances In London
Ghana’s Ignatius Gaisah is confident about his chances going into London 2012 after clocking seasons best of 8.04 meters at…
Adopt-A-Talent Committee To Unveil Sponsored Athletes
Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme of Lagos State Government is gradually achieving its objective, as some of the athletes of the programme…
Olympics: Places In Team Nigeria Not Final —AFN
By Adebobola Alawode Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, has told the 31 athletes selected to represent Nigeria in the track…
Athletics: Results at Porto Novo finals
Results from Sunday’s finals at the African Athletics Championships in Porto Novo, Benin: Men 200 m 1. Ben Youssef Meite…
Grabarz, Okoye Eye Games’ Tickets At London Grand Prix
Two of the Britain’s brightest young athletics stars, Robbie Grabarz and Lawrence Okoye, will step up their preparations for their…
Lawal: I Will Be Back And Better
By Bimbo Ajayi Australia based Nigerian athlete, Bola Lawal has said that he is not finished despite not winning a…
AAC Meet: Metu Faces S/African Challenge In Final
By Adebobola Alawole Nigeria’s fastest man, Obinna Metu, will have South Africa’s Simon Magakwe to contend with in the final…