Ivan Kuliak, a Russian gymnast, was given a one-year suspension for wearing a national war symbol on the podium at a competition in Qatar in March. Kuliak took bronze in the Apparatus World Cup parallel bars final in Doha, wearing a letter ‘Z’ taped to his chest as he stood next to Ukraine’s Illia Kovtun, […]
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Elaine Thompson-Herah, a five-time Olympic champion, ran the fastest women’s 100m in the world this year at the Golden Games in California. Thompson-Herah of Jamaica won her semi-final in 10.89 seconds in her first outdoor 100m race of the season. She then declined to compete in the final, which was won by Twanisha Terry of […]
Tennis star Novak Djokovic has expressed gratitude to supporters “all around the world” as he awaits a judgement on his expulsion from Australia. Djokovic arrived in Australia this week to compete in the Australian Open, after being granted a contentious exemption from Australia’s immunisation restrictions. However, upon landing, he was abruptly denied
After 14 months in command at the Nou Camp, Ronald Koeman has been fired as Barcelona’s head coach. Barca has only 15 points from ten games in La Liga and has already lost twice in the Champions League group stage this season. After losing against Rayo Vallecano on Wednesday, they are ninth in the table, […]
Two Belarusian coaches are being investigated for allegedly attempting to coerce an athlete to return home from the Tokyo Olympics. After criticising her trainers, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya claims she was transported to the airport in Tokyo against her will. After expressing concerns about her safety, the athlete was given police protection and later granted refuge by […]
On Sunday as England registered a 1-0 victory over Croatia, Raheem Sterling scored his first tournament goal in the opening game at the Euro 2020. The Manchester City forward got on the end of a through ball from Kalvin Phillips and slipped it into the net in the 57th minute. England have opened the continental […]
On Saturday Chelsea won the all-English Champions League final for the second time, defeating Manchester City 1-0 thanks to Kai Havertz’s first-half goal. Havertz ran onto Mason Mount’s through-ball and skipped by City goalkeeper Ederson Moraes before dropping the ball into an empty net in the 42nd minute. Chelsea has now the first European cup […]
Bayern Munich has hired RB Leipzig coach Julian Nagelsmann as the Coach replacing the departing Hansi Flick starting next season. The 33-year-old Nagelsmann will move from RB Leipzig for a five-year contract as the coach in Bayern Munich as per the reports by the reigning German champions. Bayern stated that it agreed to terminate Flick’s […]
The Court of Arbitration of Sports has overturned the ban imposed on Manchester City by the UEFA, and reduced the file imposed on the club by the football organisation from the sum of 30m euros to the sum of 10m euros. The two-year ban was originally imposed few months ago after the irregularities committed by […]
The F1 community has come up with an effective plan to help those governments suffer from the deadly Covid-19 outbreak. It has decided to support the governments with the supply of ventilators. It is planning to use its engineering platform to the production of this medical equipment. Ventilators can be used to help patients with […]