Nigeria's female weight lifter, Ivory Nwokorie, has won the gold medal in the women’s 44kg power lifting at the on-going Paralympic games in London. Nwokorie beat Cigdem Dede from Turkey, who won the silver medal, while Lidiia Soloviova of Ukraine claimed the bronze medal. Nwokorie, last year won bronze in the 44kg category at the third Fazaa International Para-powerlifting Championship in Dubai, to qualify ...

 Yakubu Adesokan has won Nigeria’s first gold medal at the on-going London Paralympic games. Adesokan smashed the world record in power lifting 48 kg weight categories lifting 180 kg to set Nigeria on the path of glory. Adesokan had earlier this year in the qualifier held at the United Arab Emirates set a record of 177kg to erase former record of 175kg. Vladimir Balynetc of Russia took silver with 170kg whi ...

Wheelchair-bound physicist Stephen Hawking challenged athletes to "look to the stars" on Wednesday as he helped open a record-setting Paralympics Games that will run for 11 days in near sold-out venues. Close on the heels of the hard-act-to-follow London 2012 Olympics, thousands of dancers and stunning fireworks added to the good cheer on the opening night for an audience of 80,000. Hawking, diagnosed with ...

Nigeria's basketball team, D'Tigers have moved up four places on global rankings to become the 17th best basketball team on earth. According to the ranking released by the world basketball governing body FIBA, Nigeria is now the second best playing team in Africa behind Angola who is ranked 15th position in the world. Nigeria produced a breath taking performance at the just concluded London Olympic Games de ...

London bade a flamboyant and madcap farewell to the Olympic Games with a romp through British pop and fashion, bringing the curtain down on more than two weeks of action that ended with America topping the sporting world with 46 gold medals. There was another sellout crowd at the 80,000-capacity athletics stadium in east London late on Sunday for the final act of the tournament, and 300 million people were ...

The United States clawed back to the top of the Olympic medal table at the London Games, waving goodbye to Michael Phelps its greatest ever medal producer, and saying hello to a brigade of young newcomers who will carry the torch onto Rio. To fully appreciate Phelps contributions to the U.S. cause, if the American swimming sensation were a country his 18 gold medals would place him 47th among Olympic nation ...

The United States were pushed to the limit in the game that mattered most and rose to the challenge to beat an inspired Spain 107-100 and win the Olympic gold medal in men's basketball on Sunday. With Kevin Durant leading the way with 30 points, the U.S. retained their Olympic title in a repeat of the closely-fought 2008 final in Beijing. Spain, relying on the inside game of Pau Gasol and the outside shooti ...

Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda broke away from two Kenyan rivals to win the men's marathon near Buckingham Palace on Sunday in front of vast crowds enjoying the climax to 16 days of Olympic competition and drama. After running side by side with world champion Abel Kirui and Wilson Kipsang, the 23-year-old put in a powerful kick to shake off the Kenyans six kilometres from the end of the 42km race. He crossed t ...

Jamaican Usain Bolt etched his name further into Olympic folklore by completing an unprecedented and sensational sprint double-double with a smooth 200 metres victory in the joint fourth fastest time ever run on Thursday. The world's quickest man, whose imperious performances in London have blown away all doubts that he deserves the unofficial title of greatest ever sprinter, stopped the clock at 19.32 seco ...

The sun beat down on the Olympic Stadium on Thursday but it was a bleak morning for two men's 4x400 metres relay medal contenders as Jamaica and Kenya failed to advance to the final after an injury and a collision. Ashton Eaton continued his push towards adding Olympic decathlon gold to his recently-acquired world record but has compatriot Tree Hardee breathing hard down his neck after seven of the 10 event ...