Andrew Small won his first Paralympic title in the T33 100m as Phoebe Paterson Pine took archery gold on her Games debut on day six of Tokyo 2020. Paterson Pine, 23, beat Chile’s Mariana Zuniga Varela 134-133 in the women’s individual compound final. Earlier, British team-mate Harri Jenkins took bronze […]
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LONDON: Manchester United should play Cristiano Ronaldo as a striker if they are to get the best out of the 36-year-old, who has returned to the Premier League club after 12 years, former United captain Wayne Rooney said. Rooney, United’s all-time top scorer, added that his former team mate’s “winning […]
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football – Italy – Serie A – Udinese v Juventus – Dacia Arena, Udine, Italy – August 22, 2021 Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo during the warm up before the match REUTERS/Massimo Pinca MANCHESTER, England : Cristiano Ronaldo will decide who he plays for next and anything can […]
Mexican Sergio Perez will race on with Red Bull next year alongside Max Verstappen, the Formula 1 team said in a statement on Friday. Perez joined Red Bull from Racing Point, now Aston Martin, and won in Azerbaijan in June – his second F1 victory after the 2020 Sakhir Grand […]
LEEDS, England: England grabbed a massive first innings lead of 354 runs and then reduced India to 34-1 to stay on course for a series-levelling victory in the third test at Headingley on Friday (Aug 27). The hosts lost their last two wickets quickly to be all out for 432 […]
Asia’s fastest man, Su Bingtian, believes he can improve on the continental record set at the Tokyo Olympic Games as he became the first Chinese man to qualify for the final of the 100 metres. Su ran 9.83 seconds in the semi-finals in Tokyo to break the Asian mark and […]
Staging the Tokyo Olympics amid the global coronavirus pandemic was one of the “most complex” tasks of his career, International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates said in an interview published on Friday. The experienced Australian Olympic Committee president led efforts to deliver the Games in the face of significant political […]
SINGAPORE: Swim champion Joseph Schooling is feeling less pressure competing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo after a “rollercoaster ride” over the past few years. Singapore’s first-ever Olympic gold medallist will seek to defend his title in the 100m butterfly, which he won in Olympic record timing at the 2016 […]
TOKYO: The so-called bubble to control COVID-19 infections at the Olympic Athlete’s Village in Tokyo is already “broken” and poses a risk of spreading infections to the general populace, a prominent public health expert said on Tuesday (Jul 20). Games officials on Sunday reported the first COVID-19 case among competitors […]
2008 Beijing Olympics middleweight boxing champion James DeGale has appealed for help after his gold medal and MBE were stolen from his parents’ house. REUTERS: 2008 Beijing Olympics middleweight boxing champion James DeGale has appealed for help after his gold medal and MBE were stolen from his parents’ house. The […]