Olympics: Amusan leads Nigeria in historic opening ceremony

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Flagbearer Tobi Amusan and Nigeria’s team captain Anuoluwapo Opeyori led Nigerian delegation at a colorful and historic Paris 2024

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• We’ll Prove Them Wrong, Athletes Vow Team Nigeria athletes have vowed to prove World Athletics wrong in its assessment, which seems to have ruled Nigeria out of making the podium in the men and women’s 100, 200m, 400, and the 4x100m, 4x400m and the mixed 4x400m relay events. The world governing body for the…

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Even before the official opening ceremony of Paris 2024 Olympics, the Main Media Centre was already filled beyond capacity, bustling with journalists and photographers. Since Wednesday, (July 24), the LOC Media Operations have had to create extra spaces by opening up new seating areas and making one of the press conference rooms available for journalists…

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An Olympic debutant from Iraq, Sajjad Sehen, has recorded the first positive doping test of Paris 2024 , the (ITA) said on Friday. In a statement on Friday from International Testing Agency (ITA) Sehen, a judoka, tested positive for the banned anabolic steroids metandienone and boldenone during out-of-competition anti-doping control in Paris on Tuesday, July…

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France’s high-speed rail network was hit by arson attacks that disrupted travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers on Friday, just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. A source close to the investigation told AFP the attacks were coordinated acts of “sabotage”. “This is a massive attack on a large scale to…