The Olympic cauldron 🎥 Paris 2024 – ComitĂ© d’organisation des Jeux Olympiques As the thrilling 2024 Paris Paralympic Games come to an end, Team Nigeria have hauled in a total of six medals as at the penultimate day (Saturday, September 07), while hoping to secure two additional medals on the final day in their last two para-powerlifting events today, Sunday. The country’s medal tally table currently looks like this: 📸NigeriaOlympic The sensational Mariam Eniola Bolaji set the pace by being the first to make a mark for Nigeria on the medals table. She claimed the Para badminton bronze medal in the women’s SL3 category. …
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Onyinyechi Mark dominates the Women’s -61kg Para powerlifting with an incredible 150kg lift 🎥Paralympics Nigerian Para powerlifter Onyinyechi Mark is nothing short of exceptional. 🔥🤯 The 23-year-old also secured Nigeria’s first gold medal in the sport at this year’s Paralympics. She broke the world record twice back-to-back in her debut appearance at La Chapelle Arena on September 06, with her final regular lift of 147kg breaking the world record – before an incredible 150kg Power Lift just moments later, which broke the world record again, and secured her gold medal. 📸Paralympic.org Onyinyechi came into her first Paralympic Games looking to conquer the…
(L-R): Badminton, Women’s Singles SL3: Gold medallist Xiao Zuxian of China; Silver medallist Qonitah Ikhtiar Syakuroh of Indonesia; and bronze medalist Mariam Eniola Bolaji of Nigeria celebrate on the podium, 2 September, 📸REUTERS – Jennifer Lorenzini In 2021, Mariam Bolaji’s coach, Bello Rafiu Oyebanji, died in a road accident as she was preparing for the Tokyo Paralympics. The 18-year-old swore to press on and make Oyebanji proud by bringing a medal home in the near future. She did. On Monday, September 02, Miriam The 18-year-old beat Oksana Kozyna from Ukraine 21-9, 21-9 to claim the para badminton bronze medal in the women’s SL3 category for…
🎥 Paralympics When Cameroonian Guillaume Junior Atangana lost his sight, he thought his life was over and that he would never do sports again. Now he’s competing at Paris2024 as a member of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team. In tandem with his running guide, Gillaume will compete in the 400m T11 events (athletes in the T11 class are severely visually impaired and compete blindfolded with a guide runner). He will line up later at the Games in the 100m with his guide, Israel Malachi-Harrison. Together with seven other Para athletes competing across six sports, they are part of the largest-ever…
🎥 Paralympics A proposal at the Paralympic Village! 🏡 đź’Ť On Thursday (August 29), at the Olympic Village, and with the 2024 Paris Paralympics well underway, Spanish para triathlete Lionel Morales Gonzalez asked his long-time girlfriend Jessica to marry him (see video above). The 50-year-old was seen pulling off the act in front of the Paralympic village dining hall by getting down on one knee and asking his partner, Jessica, for her hand in marriage. Jessica did not hesitate for a second before saying yes! Lionel Morales, who was victim of a motorcycle accident in 1997, will compete in the men’s triathlon…
Throw back to Q2 2023: 1000 Black Voices, in partnership with the British Consulate, led Founders on a Trade Missions to Los Angeles and San Francisco (USA). Pictured 1000 Black Voices founder, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (4h R) and the delegation on a visit to Plug and Play, San Francisco Bay Area The 1000 Black Voices trade mission is headed to San Francisco! During the five-day sector agnostic mission (28 October – 1 November 2024), Founders will have access to: Build lasting connections through group sessions and events to develop relationships with the investor community. Gain the knowledge needed of how to land…
Paris 2024: Nigeria’s D’Tigress beat world numbers 3 (Australia) and 5 (Canada) to reach the Olympic basketball quarter finals Nigera’s D’Tigress made history as the first African basketball team to reach the quarter finals of an Olympic basketball tournament, beating world number 3 Australia (75-62) and world number 5 Canada (79-70) to reach the qualifying stage. Fully and proudly kitted by Ugo Udezue’s AFA Sports, D’Tigress are now incredibly ranked number 12 in the world! 100-metre Olympic gold winner, Julien Alfred 📸 Getty Images/ Cameron Spencer Next, from the small Caribbean island of St. Lucia, 23-year old Julien Alfred clinched…
Simone Biles 📸 2024 Getty Images Simone Biles has just led the U.S. women’s gymnastics team to Olympic gold at Paris 2024. If Biles never competed again, her legacy would be secure as the greatest. With seven Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals, she is the most decorated gymnast of all time. Five skills are named after her. Her triple-double in her floor routine is the only “J” rated skill in women’s gymnastics, earning her an entire additional point for its difficulty. Led by Simone Biles, Team USA gets the Women’s Olympic gymnastics gold at Paris 2024 📸Naomi Baker/ Getty Images…
The ‘comeback kid’ – Celine Dion’s grit and talent transport her to centre-stage at Paris 2024 Olympics 🎥FranceTV Iconic chanteuse, CĂ©line Dion, delivered a jaw-dropping performance at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday (July 26, 2024). Standing on the balcony of a sparkling Eiffel Tower (with the Olympic rings affixed to its iron sides), and dressed a stunning silver Dior gown, Ms. Dion flawlessly belted out an emotional rendition of Édith Piaf’s 1950 track, L’Hymne Ă l’amour (Hymn of Love) to more than 300,000 spectators, including an estimated 6,800 athletes – in an incredible comeback from illness.…
At the South Sudan vs. U. S. exhibition match – LeBron James (R) finally led Team USA to victory, by the skin of their teeth 📸KimCheung/ AP The South Sudan basketball team just gave their U.S. counterparts an unforgettable game – and a wake-up call. It was the pre-Olympic exhibition match held between South Sudan and the USA in London, on Saturday (July 20, 2024). Led by LeBron James, Team USA men’s basketball may have thought the showcase against South Sudan would be a walk-over, but they were forced to dig deep, and finally only triumphed by just a single point.…