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Kenya has indicated its interest in becoming the first African country to host the Olympics. The country’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga said in London on Wednesday that Kenya will bid to host the 2024 Olympics. Mr Odinga said sub-Saharan Africa’s time to host the games had come as the region’s trillion-dollar economy was set to boom over the next decade. “Kenya had the confidence as far back as 1968 to consider bidding for the Olympics” said Kenya’s Prime Minister, Raila Odinga to the Financial Times. “That is the spirit we need to recapture. We need to bring back that confidence and say we can do it. It is necessary to take a look back at where are coming from and where we want to go, because we have been drifting for too long,” he said. A Kenyan bid would be welcomed by the International Olympic Committee but early indications are it would face stiff competition from prominent countries such as the United States with cities such as N...

100m world record holder Usain Bolt wants to play for his childhood dream club, Manchester United, as a footballer. He went to Manchester United last year for trials. He reaffirmed this in his twitter chat with Rio Ferdinand indicating his readiness to play after the olympics.

As the curtain falls on London Olympics today, Team Nigeria is ending the country's participation with not even a bronze medal to show for the N2.2bn committed to taking part in the games. The United States of America leads the medals' table with 43 gold, 29 silver and 29 bronze while China is second with 38 gold, 27 silver and 22 bronze. Host country, Great Britain that won less medals than Nigeria at the Atlanta  1996 Games is in a decent third position with 28 gold, 15 silver and 19 bronze. Nigeria's 4x400m women relay team capped the dismal outing at the games last night with a disqualification that was meaningless as the seventh position they finished was clearly outside the podium. Sinivie Boltic is the last Nigerian standing to fight for a medal in the 96kg of the wrestling event after all the other athletes brought here have all failed to get to the podium. Even Boltic's hope for a medal remains uncertain as he has a herculean task ahead against Nicolai Ceb...