25 July 2021
Tunisia: Unexpectedly, 18-year old Ahmed Hafnaoui has won Africa’s first Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the 400m freestyle, improving his personal best by 3 seconds on the occasion.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/57959779
24 July 2021
Zambia: Barbra Banda, captain of the country’s women’s soccer team in Tokyo, has today become the first woman ever to score back-to-back hat-tricks at the same Olympic games. She scored 3 of Zambia’s goals in the 4:4 draw with China, having scored all 3 goals in the recent 3:10 loss against the Netherlands.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/57954736