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An answer may have eventually emerged, to explain why Team Nigeria Trust Fund collapsed, as Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) secretary-general, Banji Oladapo has put it down to lack of experience about viable commercial angles to sports management in the country. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda National Olympic Committee (RNOC) has named three athletes to continue the search for more slots for the next Olympic Games scheduled for August 8-24 in Beijing, China. (AllAfrica)

CHANCES of Uganda's leading badminton ace Edwin Ekiring making it to the Beijing Olympic Games dwindled yesterday, after the Badminton World Federation (BWF) entered his name only on the reserves list for the men's singles. (AllAfrica)

Athletics Kenya's decision to go the Ethiopian way by having elite athletes in a long-haul training camp ahead of the Olympic Games appears headed for a rough ride as some of the track stars want to go ahead with their individual training programmes. (AllAfrica)

Just three months to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Members of the House of Representatives have adviced the Minister of Sports, Abdurahman Hassan Gimba and the Director- General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Dr. Amos Adamu to resign their appointments for late and poor preparation of athletes for the upcoming Games. (AllAfrica)

The House of Representatives Committee on Sports yesterday asked the Sports Minister/ Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Bar. Abdurahman Hassan Gimba to resign immediately due to what it described as Nigeria's lack of preparedness to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, with barely three months to kick off of the global sports fiesta. (AllAfrica)

The invitation of Hapoel Tel Aviv of Israel goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama to the Dream Team 4 (as one of the over-aged players ) has been described by Super Eagles' new goalkeepers' trainer, Alloy Agu as the surest route to ensure Nigeria grabs gold in Beijing, China. (AllAfrica)

The federal government has budgeted a total of N1.7 billion for the forthcoming Olympics in Beijing, China even as the House of Representatives expressed dissatisfaction with the county's level of preparation towards the event. (AllAfrica)

National Under-23 Dream Team 4 coach, Samson Siasia has revealed that the side will return home from this week's trip to Malaysia before going for the last phase of pre-Olympic Games camping in Portugal. (AllAfrica)

With barely 87 days to go to the beginning of the 24th edition of the Olympic Games in China, the exact size of the Cameroonian delegation to the Games is not yet known. This is because the qualifiers are still going for some disciplines such as athletics, boxing, judo, basketball and weight lifting. (AllAfrica)

THE 2008 Olympic Games begin in Beijing, China, on August 8. They will run until August 24. Much of the talk about the Games has been on the Tibetan protest, denying some the opportunity of knowing the Games are only 12 weeks away. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria's quest to repeat the gold medal winning feat in the football event of Atlanta '96 by the Dream Team IV may be dashed unless the coach of the U-23 team is given all the backing to prosecute his programme by the Nigeria Football Association (NFA). (AllAfrica)

Nigeria's preparations and participation in the forthcoming Olympic Games are set to be derailed by proposals from the Federal Ministry of Finance aiming to cut off the N1.5 billion earmarked in the 2008 budget for the games. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda National Olympics Committee (RNOC) and Rwanda Athletics Federations (RAF) are to blame for the local athletes' failure to qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games, Times Sport has established. (AllAfrica)

President Umaru Yar'Adua has charged the Nigerian Olympic team to win eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics. (AllAfrica)

A TEAM of seven lifters is heading for South Africa for a final attempt to qualify for the Beijing Games. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda National Olympic Committee (RNOC) boss is still hopeful about Rwanda's chances of having more athletes qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games scheduled for August 8-24. (AllAfrica)

WORLD 5000m bronze medalist, Moses Kipsiro will face off with Kenensia Bekele in tomorrow's Qatar Super Grand Prix in Doha. (AllAfrica)

Nineteen Nigerian weightlifters and five officials departed Lagos yesterday for South Africa to take part in the final qualifier for this summer's Olympic Games. (AllAfrica)

A new twist has been recorded in Nigerian wrestlers' attempt to qualify for the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. (AllAfrica)

The newly introduced National Sports Commission (NSC) Relays will have additional events when Calabar hosts the show this Saturday at the U.J Esuene Stadium, Calabar. (AllAfrica)

This year's Olympics Games in Beijing are primarily aimed at enhancing humanistic concepts, as it would create the platform to display the splendid Chinese culture and the life of the ordinary inhabitants of that country, especially during a time of rapid economic and social transformation. (AllAfrica)

Zimbabwe are taking no chances in getting their athletes fully prepared for this year's Olympic Games and would like their team to arrive in Beijing, China, well before the world's biggest sporting event explodes into life on August 8. (AllAfrica)

Samson Siasia and his Dream Team can rest a bit easy ahead of this summer's Olympics following the surprise exclusion of some of Holland's top stars from their team heading to China in August. (AllAfrica)

Zimbabwe are bracing themselves to send their biggest ever delegation to the Paralympic Games after 38 athletes were shortlisted for the 13th edition of the competition set for Beijing, China, in August. (AllAfrica)

Ekiti State Governor, Eng. Olusegun Oni has reiterated the readiness of his administration to support sports development in the state and Nigeria at all levels, promising that Nigeria's medal hopefuls at the forthcoming Beijing Olympics, Olusoji Fasuba and Damola Osayomi will continue to receive tremendous support, until they do the state and the nation proud at the international meet. (AllAfrica)

Determined to change the manner of sports funding in the country, the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) is taking the battle to the National Assembly to make laws that will compel multinational companies to contribute to a sports fund. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda's chances of taking a considerable team for the Olympics have been dealt a major blow after national athletes failed to make it at the just concluded 16th edition of the African athletics Championship in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia over the weekend. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria's chances of winning more medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympics suffered a jolt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when African champion, Olusoji Fasuba picked up an injury. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda's 10000m champion Dieudonne Disi started poorly to the Beijing Olympic Games preparations finishing fifth in the 32nd edition of the 12km Lilac Bloomsday Run in Washington, USA over the weekend. (AllAfrica)

ZIMBABWE soccer kings Dynamos, bracing for a rough ride in Tunisia, have been boosted by the return to training of two of the players who featured prominently in their victory over Etoile Du Sahel at Gwanzura - Desmond Maringwa and Brighton Tuwaya. (AllAfrica)