Marcell Jacobs will carry Italy’s flag at Sunday’s closing ceremony after succeeding Usain Bolt as 100-meter champion at the Olympics. Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malagò made the announcement shortly

Peruth Chemutai became the first Ugandan woman ever to win an Olympic medal as she claimed gold in the women’s 3000m steeplechase. The 22-year-old Uganda set a new national record

World football governing body FIFA on Tuesday banned former interim president Issa Hayatou for alleged wrongdoing in a commercial deal for African soccer. Hayatou, who was Confederation of African Football

Defending champion Brazil will face Spain for the Olympic gold medal in men’s football on Saturday. Spain beat host Japan 1-0 Tuesday with Marco Asensio scoring a curling shot in

United States’ Tamyra Mensah-Stock won gold in the women’s freestyle 68kg wrestling final, defeating Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu by a score of 4-1.  Mensah-Stock scored two points off a takedown about

Ese Brume has won the first medal for Nigeria at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She won bronze in women’s long jump. Germany’s Malaika Mihambo soared to gold in the

Poland granted a visa Monday to a Belarusian Olympic sprinter who said she feared for her safety and that her team’s officials tried to force her to fly home, where

Morocco’s Soufiane el-Bakkali has won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to put an end to more than 40 years of Kenyan Olympic dominance. El-Bakkali won in 8

Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu has advanced into the Final of the women’s freestyle wrestling event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics and is guaranteed either a silver or gold medal at

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has said she is “safe” and under police protection in Japan after claiming she had been removed from the national team and taken to Tokyo airport

Usain Bolt would not recognize what went down on the Olympic track he used to own. On the night of the 100-meter gold medal race that once belonged to the

USA Gymnastics announced Sunday that the six-time Olympic medalist has opted not to compete on floor, where she won gold in Rio de Janeiro and placed second in qualifying last

Everything continues to go wrong for team Nigeria at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as Divine Oduduru was disqualified from the 100m men’s event for a false start on Saturday. Oduduru

Nigeria basketball player Chimezie Metu and head coach Michael Brown have blasted the West African country’s government and Olympic committee for lack of support of their athletes at the Olympic

Simone Biles has withdrawn from the vault and uneven bar apparatus finals at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday as the US gymnast continued to wrestle with mental health issues. Biles

Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega has won the first athletics gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics in the men’s 10,000m. The 21-year-old’s fast finish was too much for the world record holder

Nigerian sprinter and 2008 Olympics long jump silver medallist Blessing Okagbare’s Tokyo Games ended abruptly on Saturday morning after she was provisionally suspended following a positive test for human growth

Nigerian athletes in Tokyo – who were ruled ineligible to compete at the Olympics in Japan- have held a protest in the country. They were banned from taking part in

There will be no Golden Slam for Novak Djokovic. The top-ranked Serb lost to Alexander Zverev of Germany 1-6, 3-6, 6-1 Friday in the semifinals of the tennis tournament at

South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker was the star of the day, setting the first individual swimming world record at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. Others shone, too. Evgeny Rylov completed a