BERLIN: Football clubs in Germany’s top two divisions on Tuesday agreed to plans drawn up by the league which could allow the partial return of fans to stadiums from mid-September, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Under the plans proposed by the German Football League (DFL) for the new season, which starts […]
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The 2021 Women’s World Cup in New Zealand could be played behind closed doors and in a bio-secure environment. Organisers of the tournament, scheduled for February and March, are advertising for a “bio-security manager”. The International Cricket Council (ICC) is understood to be looking at a range of options, in […]
MADRID: Spain’s World Cup-winning captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas announced his retirement from the professional game on Tuesday (Aug 4), ending a career that spanned over two decades in which he captured the game’s biggest prizes. The former Real Madrid skipper had called time on his five-year spell with Portuguese […]
PARIS: Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez will miss his second straight race after he was ruled out of Sunday’s Czech Grand Prix following another operation on his fractured right arm, his team said Tuesday. “After undergoing a second operation on his injured right arm, Marc Marquez and HRC have […]
Denmark’s staging of the Tour de France’s start, known as the ‘Grand Depart’, has been pushed back a year to 2022, Danish organisers said in a statement on Monday. COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s staging of the Tour de France’s start, known as the ‘Grand Depart’, has been pushed back a year to […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Fiji’s Vijay Singh, a three-time major champion, has withdrawn from this week’s PGA Championship with an injury, allowing Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo into the field. The PGA Championship, the year’s first major tournament, starts on Thursday at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco and is being staged without spectators […]
Rory McIlroy says the coronavirus shutdown has made him more focused on adding to his tally of four major titles, the last of which came in 2014. The 31-year-old will compete in the PGA Championship at Harding Park starting on Thursday, before the U.S. Open and the Masters in September […]
Lewis Hamilton is uncatchable in this year’s drivers’ world championship, according to his main rivals. SILVERSTONE: Lewis Hamilton is uncatchable in this year’s drivers’ world championship, according to his main rivals. Both Max Verstappen of Red Bull and Charles Leclerc of Ferrari effectively conceded the title on Sunday after the […]
CHICHESTER, United Kingdom: Glorious Goodwood felt more like Gloomy Goodwood this weekend despite the sunshine after a pilot scheme to welcome 4,000 spectators was cancelled at short notice due to an uptick in coronavirus cases. The scheme had offered hope for dozens of racecourses in Britain that they could admit […]
NEW YORK: The St Louis Cardinals, already facing multiple COVID-19 cases that wiped out their weekend Major League Baseball games, expect more positive results from testing on Sunday (Aug 2), ESPN reported. The Cardinals said in a statement they do not expect an update on test results before Monday and […]