Author: Wayne Lumbasi

Wayne Lumbasi On Sunday at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, the men’s 4×400 relay team from Trinidad and Tobago won the nation’s third gold medal. Jereem Richards ran the anchor leg as TT won in a time of three minutes, 1.29 seconds. The 28-year-old sprinter is the only Trinidad and Tobago athlete to […]

Wayne Lumbasi In the sweltering heat of East London, Erling Haaland lived up to the hype following his transfer from Borussia Dortmund to give the champions a perfect start to the season.  Erling Haaland scored twice as Manchester City defeated West Ham 2-0 at the London Stadium. Although Haaland scored a hat-trick in his Champions League debut for […]

Wayne Lumbasi Wenyen Gabriel, a power forward for the LA Lakers and a former refugee, returned to South Sudan last week, visiting his homeland for the first time since being resettled to the US at a young age.  Gabriel met with families and individuals who had been displaced by the flooding and conflict in the area during his […]

Wayne Lumbasi UEFA has announced that it will use technology to automatically detect when players are offside in the Champions League this season with the innovation expected to be introduced in the Premier League in a year’s time. According to UEFA, the new system will work with special cameras that track 29 different body points per […]

Wayne Lumbasi Aurelio de Laurentiis, the owner and president of Napoli, has vowed that the team will no longer sign African players unless they sign a waiver stating they will not compete in the African Cup of Nations. Earlier this year, Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly, who recently joined Chelsea, appeared at this year’s AFCON alongside […]

Wayne Lumbasi Ferdinand Omanyala, the African 100m champion, won Kenya’s 🇰🇪 first gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Omanyala clocked 10:02 seconds to become the first Kenyan since Seraphine Antao in the 1960 to win gold in the sprints at a major championship. The winner of the Men's 100m Final, and the […]

Wayne Lumbasi Diogo Jota has signed a new five-year contract with Liverpool, as the FA and Carabao Cup winners look to increase his pay and keep him at Anfield. Jota’s previous terms were not due to expire until the summer of 2025, but he was always expected to be rewarded for his exploits with a […]

Wayne Lumbasi Jacob Kiplimo, a long distance runner from Uganda, won the men’s 10000m Commonwealth title on Tuesday night in Birmingham at the Alexander Stadium. Kiplimo won Uganda’s second gold medal at the Commonwealth Games with a championship record time of 27:09.19, adding to Victor Kiplangat’s marathon victory. The 21 year old long distance runner beat stiff […]