Sports Zone 12-02-2024

Enjoy the crew banter around the Super eagle's performance in the just concluded AFCON competition and other stories around the world;

- Nigeria’s female national basketball team D’Tigress have qualified for the basketball event of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

- Nigerian athletes, Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume won big at various events in Lievin France and Houston, United States.

- Nigerian sprinter Favour Oghene Tejiri Ashe has been arrested in the United States (US) on multiple theft and fraud charges

- Kenyan runner, Bernard Sang, has emerged as the winner of the 2024 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, after clocking a time of 02:16:49

- African badminton champion, Anuoluwapo Opeyori and 11 others will represent Nigeria at the 2024 All African Seniors Badminton Championship in Egypt from 12th to 18th February

- The Kansas City Chiefs fought back to beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime and win their third Super Bowl in five years.

- The men's marathon world record holder, Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum, 24, has died in a road accident in his home country.

- Sebastien Haller was the hero for Ivory Coast again as the Elephants came from behind to beat Nigeria and win the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations final on home soil.

- Super Eagles captain William Troost-Ekong has been named Player of the Tournament following his fantastic display for Nigeria in the 2023 African Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.