Okagbare posts fast time in Stockholm and the other 6 sporting things that caught our eye last week

It was a week of big money moves. From football to American football, money was splashed on some players, defying every economic situation being bandied around the world.

Okagbare runs season’s best in Stockholm

Blessing Okagbare posted a season’s best time of 22.58s to win the women’s 200m at the Sollentuna Grand Prix in Stockholm, Sweden. Nigeria’s Rio 2016 medal hope beat Mariely Sanchez to second place while Alexandra Bezekova came in third.

It was Okagbare’s first outing this season in the 200m as she had concentrated on the 1OOm and the Long Jump. Okagbare is now the highest ranked African athlete in the women’s 200m, ahead of Cote d’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahoure.

Luck gets lucky

Andrew Luck has become the National Football League’s highest-paid player after agreeing a $140million contract extension with the Indianapolis Colts for the next six years. Luck has been lucky since he was drafted in 2012 as the No.1 pick and has stepped into the void left by Peyton Manning. He led the Colts to the playoffs in the first three of his four NFL seasons, including the AFC Championship game in 2014. Luck’s salary surpasses the $22.1m deal dished out to Joe Flacco by the Baltimore Ravens in March.

Hulk with a hulking salary

Shanghai SIPG have completed the £46.5m signing of striker Hulk from Zenit St Petersburg to make him the most expensive signing in Asian football. China is determined that it would grow football amongst its humongous population and almost all the country’s billionaires have been mandated to get football teams. The Brazilian’s salary can be interpreted in Naira thus: Hulk will earn N120,000,000 per week; N17,000,000 per day, N710,000 per hour, N12,000 per minute and N200 per second. Talk about been set for life!

Watford sign Success but reject Ighalo Bid
EPL Team, Watford completed the signing of Nigerian youth international, Isaac Success from La Liga side, Granada for a club-record fee of £12.5million. The club which has Super Eagles striker, Odion ighalo in its ranks, then rejected a bid of £37.5million for Ighalo from Chinese side, Shanghai SIPG.

Djokovic sets record and them loses

Novak Djokovic sets a new Open Era record of 30 consecutive wins in Grand Slams. He downed French player Adrian Mannarino 6-4 6-3 7-6(5) to reach the third round of the 2016 edition of Wimbledon but immediately afterwards he lost to Sam Querrey – the earliest he has had to exit a Grand Slam event in the last five years.

Phelps qualifies for fifth consecutive Olympics
Michael Phelps became the first male swimmer to qualify for five consecutive Olympic tournaments when he came in first in the 200-meter butterfly at the U.S. Olympic trials in Omaha, Nebraska. The 30-year-old narrowly edged out Tom Shields in the final with a time of 1:54.84. According to Mitch Bowmile of SwimSwam, Phelps was on pace to break his own world-record time (1:51.51) halfway through the race before slowing down a bit in the final 100 meters.

Finally…

Iceland exit Euros on a high

It was a fairytale while it lasted and it ended with a thud. Iceland won the hearts of many football fans with their gutsy approach to the Euros and their win over England in the round of 16 turned them into heroes but France were not going to be denied and thumped the Icelandic team 5-2 but in that defeat, they were not disgraced.

A land of 330,000 made the quarter final of the European championship whilst 10 per cent of their population physically attended their games in France – that is what you call total support!

All Credits: PREMIUMTIMES

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