The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today launched the latest story in its “Stronger Together” digital campaign, featuring tennis superstar Naomi Osaka, as she prepares to make her Olympic debut later this month. The video is the third amongst a series of five first-person, athlete narratives intended to build excitement for the upcoming Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Osaka’s video follows Tony Hawk and Usain Bolt, each echoing the broader message that we are “Stronger Together.”Ahead of her participation in Tokyo 2020, Osaka says, “People might think I’m quiet. Different. That I don’t fit the box of what an Olympian should be. But I’m proof that the definition is bigger than people think.”


See the Naomi Osaka film here.
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Osaka also delivers a deeply motivating message, “I want to inspire the girls out there watching right now. The ones that some people think are too different. Too quiet. Too something. And if we don’t fit that expectation of what people think we’re supposed to be, good! That just means we’re the ones who get to change it.”

​Exorcising the demons of the 2012 Olympic Games embarrassment at the hands of the USA men’s basketball team, when USA ran a scoring clinic on Nigeria defeating them 156 – 73, Nigeria turned the tables on the USA tonight in Las Vegas, when they took it to them defeating them 90 – 87. This was a first for an African nation.
 
Led by sharpshooter and arguable one of the top 2 Player in the Game today in Kevin Durant, Team USA ran into a feisty and well prepared Nigeria team led by Precious Achuiwa and Coached by NBA winning Coach Mike Brown.
 
Nigeria drew first blood and scored the first points but will then trail well into the 3rd Quarter before pulling even and then go on to match the USs’ Sharpshooting. 
 
Holding on to a thin lead into the waning minutes of the Game with Kevin Durant heating up, Nigeria held on to win 90 – 87.

Just five days after being pushed down a place on the world 400m hurdles all-time list, Norwegian star Karsten Warholm responded in sensational style to smash Kevin Young’s long-standing world record, clocking 46.70* at the Oslo Bislett Games, this season’s fourth Wanda Diamond League meeting, on Thursday (1).

Speaking at the pre-event press conference, the two-time world champion had highlighted the impact of top-class rivalries. “Your competitors are what really push you towards bigger things,” he said. “If it was only me running quick times, I wouldn’t need to push it any further, but with people there running fast times, I need to take a step up as well.”

He certainly did that when racing in front of a home crowd of 5000 at the Bislett Stadion