An athlete in Japan and five Olympic workers, mostly contractors, have tested positive for the coronavirus, Tokyo 2020 organisers said Thursday (July 15), just over a...
Switzerland’s Roger Federer became the latest big name in tennis to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics after the 20-times Grand Slam champion said on Tuesday (July...
Nigerian hope of a great outing in the rowing event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been given a big boost with the approval of a...
A member of the Ugandan Olympic team who tested positive for the coronavirus upon arrival in Japan had the Delta variant, Japan’s Olympics minister said on...
Japanese star Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from Wimbledon, her agent confirmed on Thursday (June 17), weeks after the world number two pulled out of the French Open citing...
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday June 1, confirmed the eventual qualification of Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in...
Rakuten chief executive Hiroshi Mikitani has described staging this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo as a “suicide mission” and urged organisers to cancel the...
Nigerian female Rowing team has departed for Lucerne, Switzerland on Wednesday to participate in the final qualifiers for the regatta event of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics....
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics after qualifying for the rescheduled Tokyo Games due to a rule...
The world’s oldest person, a 118-year-old Japanese woman, has decided not to take part in the torch relay for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics over pandemic fears,...