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#Tokyo2020: Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Wins Women’s 100 meters Hurdles Final
Peurto Rican-America’s representative, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, has won the Gold Medal at the Women’s 100 meters hurdles event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with a time of 12.37 seconds on Monday, August 2nd, 2021. Kendra Harrison of the United States of America won the Silver medal while Jamaica’s Megan Tapper won the Bronze medal with a…
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#Tokyo2020: Lamont Jacobs Wins Men’s 100 Meters Gold Medal
Italy’s Lamont Jacobs has won the Men’s 100 meters final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The 26-year-old achieved this feat by setting a European record of 9.80 seconds on Sunday, August 1st, 2021. Fred Kerley of the United States of America won silver with a personal best time of 9.84 seconds while Great Britain’s…
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#Tokyo2020: Grace Nwokocha Fails to Qualify for Women’s 100 Meters Final
Olympic debutant, Grace Nwokocha was hoping to book a place in the final of the Women’s 100 meters at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday, July 31st, 2021. The Nigerian secured an automatic place in the semifinals by finishing third in her heat on Thursday, July 30th, 2021. The race was not the best for…
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#Tokyo2020: Blessing Okagbare Blasts The Athletics Federation of Nigeria
Nigerian Track and Field Athlete, Blessing Okagbare, has blasted the Athletics Federation of Nigeria over the negligence of passing vital information to the ten Nigerian Athletes banned from participating at the Games by the Athletics Integrity Unit on Wednesday, July 27, 2021. She believes the affected Athletes who were based in Nigeria did not get…
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#Tokyo2020: 10 Nigerian Athletes Banned from Olympic Games!
The Athletics Integrity Unit has banned twenty athletes from participating in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, of which ten of them were Nigerians. The news was confirmed by the Integrity Unit via their official Twitter account on Wednesday, July 28th, 2021. They banned the athletes from the Games because of non-compliance with the Out of Competition…