NEW YORK: World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman will miss next year’s Tokyo Olympics after being banned for two years for breaching whereabouts rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Tuesday. Coleman, who narrowly escaped a ban last year for missing three doping tests, was provisionally suspended by the […]
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BURNLEY, England: Son Heung-min’s prolific start to the season continued with his 76th minute header giving Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 win at winless Burnley in the Premier League on Monday (Oct 26) and moving Jose Mourinho’s side up to fifth. The South Korean was left unmarked at the back post […]
SAO PAULO: A Paraguayan football official who was banned for life for match-fixing tried to influence the result of a Copa Libertadores match last year, FIFA said on Wednesday (Oct 21). Marco Trovato, the former Olimpia club president, also tried to fix 11 Paraguayan league matches in 2018 and 2019, […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s innovative Vic Open, the only event on the world’s professional golf tours where men and women tee off in alternate groups on the same course, fell victim to the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday (Oct 22). Jointly sanctioned by the men’s European Tour and the US-based elite women’s LPGA […]
TOKYO: Long-jumper Sayaka Murakami is hoping not just for a medal at the postponed Tokyo Paralympics, but also for lasting acceptance in a Japanese society where disabled people can feel pressured to stay out of the public eye. Like many Japanese para-athletes, Murakami believes the Games are a unique chance […]
ALCAÑIZ, Spain: Despite not having won a race since 2017, Spain’s Joan Mir is edging closer to the MotoGP world title as the championship enters its 2020 end-game this weekend. The 23-year-old Mir has a wafer-thin advantage of just six points over France’s Fabio Quartararo ahead of the Teruel Grand […]
LONDON: The Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) said a report that Europe’s top teams are in talks to become founding members of a new competition shows “billionaire owners are out of control” and proves football cannot regulate itself. A Sky News report said more than 12 teams from the top five […]
AMSTERDAM: Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum branded the challenge from Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford that injured Virgil van Dijk as “stupid” and called for the England number one to be punished. Van Dijk looks set to miss the rest of the season after suffering cruciate ligament damage in a contentious 2-2 […]
LONDON: Former Australia international Harry Kewell, who is in charge of England Football League Two side Oldham Athletic, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and entered self isolation, the club said. The 42-year-old Socceroos great, who played for Leeds United and Liverpool in the Premier League, felt unwell at […]
PARIS: Rafael Nadal announced today that he will compete in the Paris Masters next month, despite previously saying he might not play again this season. The 34-year-old won a record-extending 13th French Open title earlier this month with a one-sided final victory over world number one Novak Djokovic at Roland […]