in today's africa in the olympics
ethiopia ethiopian bordega upsets
uganda's choptegi to win shock ten
thousand meter gold
ethiopia's cilliman berega barega
sprinted the last lap to beat world
record holder joshua chiptegi of uganda
and win the shock
olympic gold medal in the means ten
thousand meters on friday
uganda two three finish for uganda as
chiptege kiplimo win olympic medals
joshua chiptege and jacob kiplimo have
won silver and bronze medals
respectively for uganda
in the men's ten thousand meter final at
the tokyo olympics in 20 2020 olympics
chiptegy
clocked a season best 27 minutes and
43.63 seconds
ahead of kiplimo who clocked 27 minutes
and 43.88 seconds in the epic event
at the olympic statement stadium in
tokyo japan
ghana secured boxing medal on day
nine boxer samuel taki has guaranteed
himself at least a bronze medal to
secure ghana's first olympic medal
since the men's football team won bronze
at the 1992 games
in barcelona he won his featherweight
quarter final 3-2
on points over colombia's seber david
segura
the 20 year old will now face usa's duke
reagan on tuesday in the semi-finals
with the winner going on to fight for
the gold medal and the loser
settling for the bronze taki's middle
will be only one for africa
in men's boxing in tokyo
so so proud of him
botswana's nigel amos has been included
in the 800 meter final shortlist
start list to make it a nine-man final
amos a silver medalist at the london
2012 olympics and american isaiah jewett
collided into each other in the
semi-finals yesterday
after which almost let joette finish in
front of him
jawed and amus helped each other to
their feet
put their arms around each other and
finished together on sunday
in a semi-final heat at the tokyo
olympics
they were 54 seconds behind the winner
but in this case time didn't matter it
was the right
thing to do joey insisted later in the
night amos was
reinstated into the final on appeal
jawed remained out unfortunately
nigeria nigeria's middle hopeful ese
brume
leaps into final nigerian athlete ese
brume on sunday reached the final of the
women's long jump event at the olympics
the 25 year old brume who now who won
bronze at the 2019 world championships
in
doha is seen as one of the country's
strong middle prospects in tokyo having
jumped a distance of 7.17 meters
at the chule vista festival in
california in may to shatter chiyoma
adjunwa's 25 year long
jump record of 7.12 metres brumey's jump
is also the world lead going into the
olympics
ivory coast ivory coast murray jose
talou
mrs middle on day eight ivory coast
sprinter marie jose talu
finished fourth in the women's 100 meter
final for the second consecutive
olympics
as jamaica claimed a clean sweep of the
medals
tallu ran 10.91 seconds but was beaten
by the jamaican trio
a big congratulations to our jamaican
sisters
south africa akane simbine finishes
fourth in the 100 meters south africans
akanesembe
finishes misses out on a middle as he
finishes fourth
and the men's 100 meets a race africa
wide
ecstatic feeling for families of kokuma
refugee kakuma refugee olympic team
competing in tokyo families of the
athletes on the refugee olympic team who
come
from kenya's kakuma settlement have sent
prayers and messages of hope
to their representatives in tokyo this
is their second
for the athletes who overcame
prosecution and
conflict many of them have trained for
years to compete
at the olympics this year they were they
made their appearance rather at the 2016
rio olympics where they made history
as the first refugee olympic team at the
games
the kakuma refugee camp is located in
the northwestern region
of kenya the camp was established in
1992
following the arrival of the lost boys
of sudan
the camp is home to 160 000 refugees
from south sudan
sudan somalia the democratic republic of
congo
burundi ethiopia and uganda
29 refugee athletes are competing at the
tokyo 2020 olympic games in 12
olympic disciplines our medal tally so
far
stands at three gold medals five silver
medals and five bronze medals that's a
total of 13 medals for africa keep up
the fantastic work
team africa make sure to catch our
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