SILVERSTONE, England: Valtteri Bottas pipped championship-leading Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton to pole position for Formula One’s 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone with a flying final lap today. Super stand-in Nico Hulkenberg qualified his Racing Point an eye-opening third as a replacement for absent Mexican Sergio Perez, in quarantine after […]
Sports
LONDON: The return of recreational rugby in England has been given the go-ahead by the government after it approved the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) action plan for phased resumption. Due to its very physical nature, rugby union has been one of the sports hardest hit by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. […]
ROME: Serie A club Juventus have sacked coach Maurizio Sarri after one season in charge, following the team’s elimination from the Champions League in the round of 16 on Friday (Aug 7), the Turin club in a statement. The 61-year-old was dismissed despite leading Juventus to the Serie A title […]
SAN FRANCISCO: TPC Harding Park’s narrow fairways and thick rough have given players fits through the first two rounds of the PGA Championship, but it was the course’s unexpectedly slow greens that caused headaches for Tiger Woods yesterday. The greens are relatively flat, but the combination of second-round hole positions […]
SILVERSTONE, England: Six times world champion Lewis Hamilton set his sights on a second successive home pole position after lapping fastest in final practice for Formula One’s 70th Anniversary Grand Prix today. The Mercedes driver set a time of one minute 26.621 seconds at the 5.8-km Silverstone circuit, where he […]
LONDON: Wolverhampton Wanderers will be allowed to register only 23 players instead of 25 if they qualify for the Champions League next season after breaching Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, European football’s governing body has said. In a statement released to British media, Uefa said Premier League side Wolves […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Petronas Yamaha Sepang Racing Team (SRT) Moto Grand Prix (GP) riders ― Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli ― displayed a stellar performance after finishing top two spots in the first two free practice sessions of the Czech Republic GP at the Brno Circuit yesterday. Quartararo, who sits comfortably […]
PARIS: Thiago Silva’s eight years as a Paris Saint-Germain player are about to come to an end and the Brazilian centre-back has one piece of unfinished business to contend with as the Qatar-owned club head to Lisbon targeting Champions League glory. That is something that has so far eluded Silva […]
NEW YORK: Women’s world number five Elina Svitolina and Kiki Bertens, ranked seventh, on Friday joined a growing list of players withdrawing from this month’s US Open due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Men’s defending champion Rafa Nadal and women’s world number one Ashleigh Barty have opted against travelling to New […]
Women’s world number seven Kiki Bertens has joined a growing list of players withdrawing from this month’s U.S. Open due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dutch player said on Friday. Women’s world number seven Kiki Bertens has joined a growing list of players withdrawing from this month’s U.S. Open due […]