Spaniard Maria Perez collected her second gold medal of the world championships in the 20km walk yesterday to secure an unprecedented double-double, while Caio Bonfim gave Brazil its first global walk title in the men’s race.Perez, who successfully defended her 35km title in searing heat last week,
Rwanda is to take center stage from today as the first African country to host the cycling world championships, in its latest use of sports to improve the country’s reputation. As it prepares for 5,000 cyclists and 20,000 spectators, Rwanda has spruced up its roads, created a network of cycle lanes
India’s players need to block out the noise as they prepare to again face rivals Pakistan in the Asia Cup amid controversy over their previous clash, skipper Suryakumar Yadav said yesterday.The eight-team tournament has been dominated by headlines about India and Pakistan’s first meetings on the pit
Iga Swiatek blazed into the Korea Open final after bad weather forced her to play two matches yesterday, winning both in a combined time of two-and-a-half hours.The Polish six-time Grand Slam champion thrashed the Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejcikova 6-0, 6-3 in a quarter-final moved from Friday beca
Russians would be allowed to compete at next year’s Milan-Cortina Winter Games, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday said it had never discussed banning Israel.The IOC confirmed after an executive board meeting in Milan that it would follow the system it used at the Paris Summer G
McLaren’s Australian driver Oscar Piastri drives during a practice session of the Formula One Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit in Baku on Friday. The race is to take place today.
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There is nothing like watching Max Fried pitch to alleviate some of the angst and pressure associated with managing the New York Yankees in the middle of a pennant race.Manager Aaron Boone had a blast on Thursday watching Fried mow down the Baltimore Orioles in a 7-0 rout. The left-hander struck out
Christian Yelich always believed he could get back to hitting the way he had earlier in his career, even as he encountered skepticism about his chances of making a successful comeback from back surgery.The Milwaukee Brewers slugger has responded by putting together his first 100-RBI season since mak
Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen on Thursday threw for three touchdowns as the Bills extended their dominance of the Miami Dolphins with a 31-21 victory to remain unbeaten in the new NFL season.Reigning NFL Most Valuable Player Allen threw for 213 yards and three touchdowns, while linebacker Terrel Be
Along Italy’s Mediterranean coast on Thursday, driver Fabio Barone raced across the flight deck of a navy ship while chasing a world record: the fastest car on a boat.Last year, Barone set the Italian Timekeepers Federation’s record on another aircraft carrier in southern Italy, hitting 152kph. In C
SOCCERWolves resign PereiraPortuguese coach Vitor Pereira has signed a new three-year contract at Premier League team Wolverhampton Wanderers. The club announced the deal on Thursday, showing its faith in Pereira, despite Wolves being last in the Premier League having lost all four of their games so
OHTANI RETHINK: The Dodgers are considering making two-way star Ohtani, who hit his 51st homer on Wednesday, a relief pitcher to shore up their struggling bullpen
Ian Happ on Wednesday homered and drove in three runs, as the Chicago Cubs clinched their first post-season berth since 2020 with an 8-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.In the middle of a darkened visitors’ clubhouse at PNC Park, the Chicago Cubs embraced each other. Champagne flowed and flew for th
Virgil van Dijk on Wednesday scored a dramatic late winner to grab Liverpool a 3-2 UEFA Champions League victory over Atletico Madrid, while Paris Saint-Germain launched their title defense by thrashing Atalanta BC.Elsewhere, Harry Kane scored twice as Bayern Munich downed Club World Cup winners Che
Former world sprint champion Fred Kerley has become the first track athlete and first American to join the no-drug-testing Enhanced Games, the competition said on Wednesday, weeks after the Athletics Integrity Unit slapped him with a provisional suspension for whereabouts failures.The 2022 100m worl
For stretches of her four long years in running purgatory, the poster child for a drug-fighting system in sports that nobody truly understands was as likely to be seen driving her 1971 Volkswagen minibus across the country as working out on the track.The US’ reigning 5,000m champion, Shelby Houlihan
Pakistan on Wednesday set up another politically charged showdown with archrivals India at the Asia Cup after defeating the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by 41 runs in Dubai.The match began an hour late as the fallout rumbled on from a handshake row with India.The Pakistan Cricket Board was considering
TENNISChan advances in SeoulTaiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Danish partner Clara Tauson last night dominated France’s Lois Boisson and the Netherlands’ Suzan Lamens to advance to the women’s doubles quarter-finals at the Korea Open in Seoul. Chan and Tauson won 6-2, 6-2 in just over an hour. They are to
HALF CENTURY: Mbappe, who reached 50 goals in Madrid’s narrow victory over Marseille, said he does his best when he feels the pressure in situations
Arsenal on Tuesday won 2-0 away to Athletic Bilbao as the league phase of this season’s UEFA Champions League kicked off, with two Kylian Mbappe penalties giving Real Madrid a narrow win over Olympique de Marseille, while Juventus and Borussia Dortmund drew an eight-goal thriller.Tottenham Hotspur a
After Shohei Ohtani on Tuesday pitched five hitless innings for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Philadelphia Phillies’ Rafael Marchon hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer off Blake Treinen with two outs in the ninth inning for a 9-6 win.Brandon Marsh had a two-run homer and Max Kepler added a solo shot i
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