The IOC stands for non-discrimination as one of the founding pillars of the Olympic Movement, which is reflected in the Olympic Charter, Fundamental Principle 6: “The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Olympic Charter shall be secured without discrimination of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, language, religion, […]
via The International Olympic Committee (IOC) condemns racism in the strongest terms. — finixsportsblog
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) welcomed the difficult joint decision today of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee and Japan Prime Minister Abe Shinzo to postpone the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 to a date no later than the summer of 2021. The IOC stated that the Tokyo 2020 Games will […]
via Olympic Baseball, Softball, Tokyo 2020 Games Postponed To 2021 — finixsportsblog
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today revealed the official Olympic softball game schedule, which will open on 22 July at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium and close with the gold medal game on 28 July at Yokohama Baseball Stadium. Australia and defending […]
via Olympic Softball Schedule Announced For Tokyo 2020 Games — finixsportsblog
A Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships is set to take place in India in 2022 after a proposal to stage the event was approved by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Executive Board. The event will be held in Chandigarh, the capital of the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, and is scheduled to be […]
via 2022 Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships Set To Take Place in India — finixsportsblog
The full match schedule for the men’s and women’s volleyball tournaments at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 has been confirmed, ahead of the ultimate sporting event of the planet due to be held in the Japanese capital from July 24th to August 9th. Match schedule – Men – Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – Click here. […]
via Tokyo 2020 Volleyball Event Match Schedule Confirmed — finixsportsblog
News making the rounds that the third edition of the Edo State Sports Festival scheduled for February 11-16 has been postponed is false and misleading says Barrister Godwin Dudu-Orumen, Chairman, Edo State Sports Commission (ESSC). Dudu-Orumen in a statement on Monday signed by Nnamdi Okosieme, his Special Adviser on Media, asked the public to disregard […]
via Reports of Postponement of Edo State Sports Festival, False – Dudu-Orumen — finixsportsblog
Delta State determination to ensure that her athletes made podium appearances at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is on track according to Solomon Ogba the Chairman of Delta State Athletics. Ogba’s confidence is buoyed by the performance of Raymond Ekevwo in the 60m Indoor over the weekend. Ekevwo won the race in 6.53 sec, the […]
via AHEAD TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: Delta State Programme On Track Says Solomon Ogba — finixsportsblog
Rugby Union is set to return to the National Sports Festival 2020 after a ten year absence having missed out in the last three editions held in Lagos, Rivers and Abuja. The Nigerian National Sports Festival is a biennial multi-sport event organised by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Sports Commission for athletes […]
via Rugby Union To Return Nigeria’s National Sports Festival 2020 — finixsportsblog
The Competition Director for the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival (NSF) Yussuf Alli on Sunday declared that National and Festival records, especially in athletics, could be broken at the Edo 2020 Sports Festival. Speaking to sports correspondents in Benin, Edo State after inspection of facilities at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Alli said the base for […]
Concerned with the declining attention paid to the needs of the Sports Sector the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports sought partnership with the NESG on the need to reposition sports as a business and no longer a social service sector in order to make it more attractive to the Organised Private Sector. Following a […]
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, Thomas Bach, has called on Nigeria to embrace fencing saying the country can excel in the sport if it gets adequate support. Bach, who featured in a fencing display at Aduvie International School, Jabi District, Abuja on Thursday said the nation has the wherewithal to be a force in the […]
African champion Blessing Onyebuchi (+70kg) capped a memorable outing for Nigeria at the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar with a gold medal in beach wrestling. On the last day of competition in the sport, Onyebuchi overpowered Ecuador’s Rosangela Reasco Valdez 3-0 in a one-sided final in the over 70kg category to land […]
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