LONDON: Arsenal are in for a tense race to seal the fourth and final Champions League spot in the Premier League, a race with fine margins that could be decided only at the end of the season, manager Mikel Arteta said today. Five teams — Manchester United, West Ham United, […]
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Russia’s Tereza Martincova defeated Ukrainian 10th seed Elina Svitolina 6-7 (2), 7-5, 7-6 (5) in a nearly three-hour match Monday in the first round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open in Doha. Svitolina converted nine of 10 break-point opportunities and saved 12 of 22, but Martincova had seven aces and wound […]
NEW DELHI: Opener Rohit Sharma was named India’s test captain on Saturday, succeeding Virat Kohli as the team’s leader in all three formats ahead of the home series against Sri Lanka. Kohli, India’s most successful test captain, resigned from the role in a shock move last month after seven years […]
LONDON: Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been banned for 10 years for doping and refusing to cooperate with the investigation, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said today. Okagbare, who won silver in the long jump at the Beijing 2008 Games, was provisionally suspended last year after testing positive for human […]
LONDON: Manchester United captain Harry Maguire has denied reports of a power struggle with Cristiano Ronaldo as the club battle to end the season in the Premier League’s top four. Maguire has been well below his best this season and it has been reported that the United skipper feels undermined […]
BEIJING: Ukrainian cross-country skier Valentyna Kaminska has failed a doping test at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Games’ testing authority said today. Kaminska, 34, tested positive for an anabolic steroid and two other banned substances, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said in a statement. She has taken part in three […]
BEIJING : Yuzuru Hanyu left his legion of squealing fans in the dark and wondering whether they would ever see their Japanese figure skating hero compete again as millions tuned in live on Monday for his news conference on the sidelines of the Beijing Games. The 27-year-old fell short of […]
BEIJING: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) to investigate the entourage of Kamila Valieva as the teenage Russian figure skater awaits her fate in a doping case at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday. A Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) hearing is scheduled to take […]
SHAH ALAM: The country’s top men’s singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia no longer wants to play second fiddle to world champion Loh Kean Yew when Malaysia take on Singapore in the 2022 Asian Team Badminton Championships (BATC) on Wednesday. Having lost to Kean Yew in their last two meetings out […]
ZHANGJIAKOU, China: Snowboarder Belle Brockhoff was returning to the athletes’ village after receiving clear scans, the Australian Olympic Committee said on Saturday, following a fall during the mixed team snowboard cross quarter-final at the Beijing Games. The Australian Olympic Committee said Brockhoff’s CT and MRI scans had come back all […]