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Favour Ofili, national women champion, says she cannot participate in the women’s 100 meters at the Paris Olympics because the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) and the Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN) failed to register her for the event.   The 22-year-old sprinter announced the development in a post on her …

Arsenal sign defender Riccardo Calafiori from Bologna in a deal worth £42m; Italy international can play at centre-back or left-back; the 22-year-old only wanted to join Gunners despite interest from Real Madrid and Juve; Calafiori becomes Arsenal’s second major summer signing The 22-year-old, who can play at centre-back or left-back, …

Match day at last! FC Barcelona are in the United States for their summer tour, and just 48 hours after touching down in Florida, they are straight into action with the first game of the preseason. The venue is the 60,219 capacity Camping World Stadium in Orlando and the opposition are the …

Chelsea and Napoli are trying to thrash out a multi-layered deal that would see Victor Osimhen join the Blues and Romelu Lukaku head to Italy. Belgium striker Lukaku has long been in line to join Napoli on a permanent deal this summer, to reunite with his former Inter Milan boss Antonio Conte in Serie A. Chelsea want £30million …

The 60th edition of Rafael Nadal-Novak Djokovic was not exactly an instant classic. Djokovic, top seed in the Paris Olympics, dominated the unseeded Nadal, 6-1, 6-4, to advance to the third round in singles at Roland Garros. Djokovic improved to 31-29 all-time against the 14-time French Open champion. Nadal still …

Manchester United are pushing to sign Bayern Munich defender Noussair Mazraoui, and presenter Mark Goldbridge believes he would be an upgrade on current right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka. With Wan-Bissaka and Diogo Dalot as options on the right-hand side of defence, reinforcing this area of the pitch might not seem like an immediate …

Former Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi, has claimed the Chelsea duo of Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo can dominate every Premier League team except Manchester City. Mikel Obi was speaking on his podcast, reacting to Blues’ manager Enzo Maresca’s handling of Enzo’s racism controversy. Maresca defended the Argentina midfielder …

Former Ligue 1 giants Bordeaux give up professional status and terminate player contracts just days after being relegated to third tier The six-time French champions were relying on a takeover from Liverpool owners FSG to save them from further penalties following financial struggles in recent years. But after the group …

Barcelona have confirmed they have struck a deal with Girona for striker Pau Victor to stay at the club for the next five years. Victor was Barca Atletic’s top scorer last season after impressing with Rafa Marquez’s side who made it to the promotion play-off final. Barca failed to take up …

The live coverage of France vs USA in the men’s Olympic football competition has ended.   Thank you for joining us and I hope you enjoyed our coverage. We will be back on Thursday for more action from the Paris Games. For now, it’s a goodbye from me, Manasi Pathak, …