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NIGERIAN SPORTS TODAY
August 23, 2008

• Official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Website
  
  Medals table
  Schedule
  Olympics blog
   
• Confederation Of African Football

 

• FIFA
   

• FIFA Globalcom Premier League
   

• EYINBA Globalcom Premier League
   

• BasketballTV

 
 

• Saviours! Courageous Dream Team IV saves Nigeria's blushes
  But for the efforts of the Olympic football team tagged Dream Team 1V, Nigeria’s participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games would have been  a calamity in a year smaller countries like West African neighbours Togo recorded her name on the medals log very early in the competition through canoe/kayak won by Benjamin Boukpeti. Vanguard
   
• Emedolu Suspended, Thrown Out Of Olympic Village
  THE Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has suspended Uchenna Emedolu, a member of the 4 x 100 metres relay quarter to the 2008 Beijing games for an alleged act of sabotage. Tribune
   
• Gold or silver!
  Only few people gave them chance to make it to the medal’s stage at the Beijing Olympics. But the Dream Team IV held on to their dream and fought their way to the final. The benchmark set by the Nwankwo Kanu-led gold winning Dream Team I at the Atlanta ’96 Olympics|The Sun
   
• All hail Siasia!
  Although many never gave the Dream Team IV any chance of coming home with a medal in the Men’s Football event at the Beijing Olympics, Hon. Felix Amechi Obuah says he is not surprised.| The Sun
   
• Portugal Made Me, Not Nigeria -Obikwelu
  The mixed zone came alive on Saturday 16 August 2008 after world champion, Tyson Gay of the USA and Athens Olympics silver medalist Daily Independent
   
• Olympics: Nigeria Finally on Medals Table
  Nigeria finally ended its  search for elusive medals in Beijing last night when she won two medals with just two days left before the end of the ... ThisDay
   
• Relay bronze for Nigeria
  Russia claimed a surprise victory in the women's 4x100m relay as favourites Jamaica and Great Britain failed to get the baton round cleanly. BBC
   
• Nigeria wins medal in long jump
  Maurren Maggi claimed Brazil's first Olympic track and field gold medal as she won the women's long jump crown. BBC