athletics

This Saturday, July 31, it was difficult for Ivory Coast with Marie-Josée Ta Lou's fourth place in the 100 meters and elimination of football players in the quarterfinals. The only good news for the Ivorians: the qualification of Arthur Cissé for the semifinals of the 100 meters. The second clarification came from the Angolan handball players who are relaunching before the quarter-finals.…

Ivory Coast Marie-Josée Ta Lou finished again in fourth place in the 100 meters at the Olympic Games, on July 31, 2021 in Tokyo, five years after finishing at the foot of the podium over this distance and over 200 meters at the Rio Games. Jamaicans Elaine Thompson-Herah (1st), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2nd) and Shericka Jackson (3rd) dominated this final.…

Houleye Ba finished last in the 100-meter qualifiers at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics on July 30. Mauretanian, a daily teacher, played her second Olympics after those in Rio 2016. A positive experience for the young woman, after all. From our special correspondent in Tokyo,The important thing is to participate. This maxim, which is…

Its presence in Tokyo is a miracle. Dorian Keletela, a young 22-year-old sprinter, will line up for the 100-meter event to defend the colors of the international refugee team. After fleeing Congo alone five years ago, a country with which he has completely forged ties, it is in Portugal that the athlete now dreams of a fate like Francis Obikwelu, his idol and his new coach.…

The son of a financial inspector and a teacher, Hugues Fabrice Zango could not imagine having a sports career. However, Burkinabè will be a very serious challenger for the Olympic gold medal in the triple jump on August 5 in Tokyo. Portrait. Being an Olympic champion is not a dream for Hugo's Fabrice Zango, it's a project.…

Thunderclap for Namibia. This Friday, July 2, a statement from the Namibian Olympic Committee indicates that Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have a testosterone level too high to be able to run over 400 m at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The two girls are no longer on the World Sports Federation's list of athletes who can…

Former Kenyan marathoners Tegla Loroup use her notoriety to defend the cause of refugees through sport. She founded an athletics training center in Ngong, near Nairobi, which houses refugees. Originally from South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia or the Democratic Republic of Congo, they practice athletics and some have even been selected to participate in the Tokyo Olympics.…

The 22nd African Athletics Championships will not take place. Nigeria, asked to host the event instead of Algeria, finally gave up because of the health context. This important step towards the Tokyo Olympics had already been postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to Covid-19. A big blow for African athletics, less than 50 days…

Condemned by French justice in September in a major case of corruption against the background of doping by Russian athletes, he arrived in Dakar last Monday night, May 10. He was held in France due to a prosecution in a second case, suspected of having bought votes in the allocation of the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.…

The following African Athletics Championships, which have already been postponed till 2020 to 2021 on account of Covid-19, have been postponed from the start (1-5) to the tip of June and needs to be held in Algiers as a substitute of Oran. This occasion ought to function a springboard for a lot of African athletes on the Tokyo Olympics (July 23-August 8).…