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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Imo, Sports, State News, Track & Field
Friday, August 17th, 2012
BY BEN EFE Fraudsters parading themselves as Imo State government officials have conned former Nigerian Olympian, Gloria Alozie and a score of European athletes into parting with their money, in the name of participating in a phantom Imo Marathon. Alozie who won a 100m hurdles silver for Nigeria at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, disclosed […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | August 15, 2012 – Take a Nigerian and you have a survivor, take two Nigerians and you get two competing survivors, take three Nigerians and you get a series of contradictions. That in part is the story of Nigeria in the just concluded successful London Olympics. It […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Monday, August 13th, 2012
LAGOS—The story of Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics is “No gold, no silver, no bronze, N2.3 billion down the drain.” And now a top Nigerian sports official who is a member of an international sports federation wants the federal government to compel the sports ministry to account for how they spent the N2.3 billion […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Monday, August 13th, 2012
The London 2012 Olympic Games ended on Sunday with Team Nigeria returning home with no medal, raising questions over the N1.9bn budgeted for the Nigeria’s participation at the Games. It was an unusual record compared to the nation’s achievements at the Games in the past two decades. It was one that reminded Nigerians of the […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines, Sports, Track & Field
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
LONDON (AFP) – Sprint king Usain Bolt said he had lost all respect for Carl Lewis after the US sprint legend restated his concerns over the toughness of Jamaica’s drug-testing policy. Speaking after winning the 200m at the London Olympics to seal a second consecutive sprint double, Bolt said he held sprint icon Jesse Owens […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Cameroon Olympic officials have asked for help in tracking down seven of their athletes who have gone missing during the London Olympics, organisers said on Wednesday. The seven, including five boxers, a swimmer and a football player, have disappeared from the Olympic village in east London and are suspected of having left to stay in […]
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Headlines, Sports, Track & Field
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
The buzzer sounded the end of the fairy tale, and the Nigerian team limped off the court in slow motion, unwilling, unable to let go. As they filed into the tunnel, the crowd stood in unison and cheered the team they call D’Tigers. D’Tigers lost again on Monday, this time to France, standing ovation […]
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American Politics, Headlines, Sports, Track & Field
Monday, August 6th, 2012
Serena Williams followed her own Golden Slam by teaming with big sister Venus on Sunday to continue their dominance of Olympic women’s doubles tennis. The American sisters beat Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4 under the roof on a rainy afternoon at the All England Club for their third Olympic […]
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Sports, Track & Field
Monday, August 6th, 2012
Usain Bolt of Jamaica has retained his Olympic 100m title in a hotly contested race which saw seven men finished the race in less than 10 secs. Bolt, though has a poor reaction to the gun set an Olympic record of 9.63 sec at the London Olympic to win the highly anticipated race. “I was […]
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Headlines, NNP News, Sports, Top Stories, Track & Field
Saturday, August 4th, 2012
By NNP Filed by NNP – Nigeria’s woes at the on-going London Olympic games continued unabated Saturday as the only hopeful for a medal, 23 year-old Blessing Okagbare, finished last (11:01 secs) in the final women’s 100m race that was won by 32-year Jamaica’s Shelly-ann Frazer-Pryce (10:75 secs) with America’s Carmelita Jeter claiming silver (10:78 secs) while Jamaica’s Veronica […]
