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Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson questioned why Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to continue competing at the
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BREAKING: Britain’s Emma Raducanu beats Canada's Leylah Fernandez to win U.S. Open women's tennis title
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Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics reported 26 new Games-related COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the total since July 1 to 430 cases.
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Brazil's triple Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay 5 million Brazilian Reals ($953,050) in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a Brazilian court ruled on Friday.
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U.S. gymnast Simone Biles on Tuesday stepped onto the balance beam and threw off a week of doubts, fears and mental pressure to do what she has long done best - win an Olympic medal, this time a bronze she hadn't even thought she could try for.
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As far as the Winter Olympics go there's no bigger event than the figure skating competition for many and arguably no bigger name in the sport than defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu.
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The Russians may have won figure skating's first gold medal at the Beijing Games but the most anticipated event on Monday was at the nearby training rink where Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu, at long last, made his first appearance for a practice session.
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Breakdancing cleared its final hurdle to feature in the Paris 2024 Games on Monday, bringing the wholly original, electric art form to sport's biggest stage.
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Vasco da Gama look set to become the latest Brazilian soccer club to be bought by outside investors on Monday when U.S. investment firm 777 Partners reached a deal to purchase a controlling stake, the Rio club said.
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Japan's two-time Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu will hold a news conference on Tuesday, at which time he will make a "statement of determination," his management agency said on Monday.
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The weight on the shoulders of Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu must be immense.
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Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois feels he will finally get the respect he deserves after his man-of-the-match performance helped the LaLiga champions claim a record-extending 14th European Cup triumph on Saturday.
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Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green said it is not his place to convince team mate Andrew Wiggins to take a COVID-19 shot and described the debate surrounding vaccinated and unvaccinated players as a "political war".
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'Can we get a solid answer on the difference of (Valieva's) situation and mines?' Richardson wrote on Twitter.
'My mother died and I can’t run and was also favored to place top 3. The only difference I see is I’m a black young lady' 4/5
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BREAKING: Ryan Lochte will be suspended by USA Swimming and U.S. Olympic committee - CNN.
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The United States powered to their seventh successive victory in the women’s 4x400m relay on Saturday as Allyson Felix won gold in the event for the fourth time to extend her Olympic medal haul to a remarkable 11.
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Tennis player Novak Djokovic has purchased 80% of Danish biotech firm QuantBioRes, aiming to develop a medical treatment against COVID-19, the company's chief executive told Reuters.
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WATCH: Prince Harry kicks off the 2023 Invictus Games, which for the first time take place in Germany
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Real Madrid's French striker Karim Benzema deserves to win the Ballon d'Or this year after helping to guide his team to the Champions League title, seven-times winner of the award Lionel Messi said on Monday.
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Portugal skipper Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated becoming the first player to appear in five European Championships with a brace as they got their title defence off to a winning start with a 3-0 victory over a determined Hungary on Tuesday.
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WATCH: Britain's Prince Harry thanks the athletes as he wraps up the Invictus Games
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Hundreds of fans gathered at Incheon International Airport in South Korea to welcome soccer player Son Heung-min and cheered loudly as he showed the Golden Boot award
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Italy beat England 3-2 on penalties to win the European Championship title for the first time since 1968
#Euro2020
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LATEST: Russian punk band ‘Pussy Riot’ claims responsibility for pitch invasion during
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final on social media.
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Uganda’s world record holder Joshua Cheptegei showed he had learned his Olympic lesson as he delivered a tactical masterclass to win a second successive world 10,000 metres gold in a superb race on Sunday.
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American Sha'Carri Richardson will not compete at the Diamond League in Stockholm on Sunday, where she had been expected to run in the 200m, according to the event's entry list.
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Flamengo big winners at Brazil's Player of the Year awards
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Bahrain-domiciled asset manager Investcorp could agree the buyout of Italian soccer club AC Milan as early as this week, when an exclusive negotiation period with U.S. fund Elliott is set to end, sources familiar with the matter said.
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Valarie Allman of the United States won the gold medal in the women's discus on Monday.
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Players and staff from Colombian side Junior and Argentina's River Plate were left rubbing their eyes in discomfort after police fired tear gas at protesters outside the stadium ahead of their Copa Libertadores match in Barranquilla on Wednesday.
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Serbian Tennis player Novak Djokovic said he was hopeful he could take part in the next U.S and Australian Opens, as he inaugurated a tennis complex in the Bosnian town of Visoko
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Alexander Zverev believes there are probably more players at the Australian Open who have COVID-19 but they are not being tested, the third seed said on Wednesday.
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Shericka Jackson ran the third fastest 200 metres of all time in 21.55 seconds to seal a sprint double at the Jamaican national trials for next month's World Championships on Sunday.
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The 21-year-old American was expected to be one of the biggest draws at the Tokyo Summer Games after winning the 100 meters at the U.S. trials, but was barred from competing after accepting a one-month ban for her positive test for cannabis 2/5
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Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse, told Reuters that Russian skating prodigy Kamila Valieva's failed drug test is a reminder of how vulnerable young athletes remain.
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Supporters of the South Korean team celebrated after the team defeated Portugal, reaching the knockout phase for the first time since 2010 at the
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Hubbard will compete in the super-heavyweight 87+kg category, her selection made possible by an update to qualifying requirements in May. The 43-year-old will be the oldest lifter at the Games 2/4
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There is no truth to a report about the possible cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics, Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Manabu Sakai, a government spokesman, told reporters on Friday, denying a newspaper report that the event would be called off.
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The German women's gymnastics team wore full-body suits in qualifications at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday after saying their fashion choice went against the sexualisation of their sport and showed that women could wear what they choose.
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Some of the world's top tennis players, including Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, as well as the German Olympic Committee have tweeted
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Ajax Amsterdam have banned fans from bringing signs into Johan Cruyff Arena asking players for their shirts after matches, Dutch media reported on Tuesday.
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Simone Biles, who shocked the world by pulling out of the team all-around competition in the Tokyo Olympics, has also withdrawn from the individual all-around competition, USA Gymnastics said in a statement on Twitter on Wednesday.
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An outcry over the whereabouts of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai escalated as the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) said it was prepared to pull its tournaments out of China over the issue 1/5
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Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly wore a special armband in memory of former international Papa Bouba Diop, who died exactly two years ago, during his team's decisive game against Ecuador at the
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Sporting green and purple hair and a grinning Joker mask, Raven Saunders became a social media sensation after Friday's Olympic shot put qualifying round and on Sunday she displayed the raw power of Hulk to pick up her maiden Games medal.
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Breakdancing, surfing, skateboarding and sports climbing won a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics when the International Olympic Committee ratified their inclusion on Monday, IOC President Thomas Bach said.
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Formula One stewards sent title contender Lewis Hamilton from first to last in the lineup for Saturday's Sao Paulo sprint race after his Mercedes car's rear wing failed a technical inspection.
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U.S. investment firm RedBird Capital Partners has agreed a 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) deal to buy Italian soccer champions AC Milan, the club said on Wednesday, while current owners Elliott will retain a minority investment.
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The New Zealand government gave its support.
'We are proud of her as we are of all our athletes, and will be supporting her all the way,' sports minister Grant Robertson said 3/4
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Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga is set to make history as one of the first women referees to officiate at a men’s World Cup. The Qatar
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organising Committee said on Saturday that international spectators will not be allowed to enter Japan during the Olympic Games which are scheduled for this summer.
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Serena Williams becomes the first woman to win all four Grand Slams and a gold medal in both singles and doubles.
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After the U.S. women's gymnastics team won silver at the Tokyo Olympics without leader Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles had a message for her good friend as they stood shoulder to shoulder on the podium.
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In the southern Italian city of Naples, soccer is a religion and Diego Armando Maradona was its God.
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Ecuador will play at the 2022 World Cup after FIFA dismissed Chile's claims that they had fielded an ineligible player in the qualifiers, world soccer's governing body said on Friday.
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She later said her action was the result of mourning the death of her mother, as the incident rekindled the debate over the use of cannabis among athletes 3/5
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Goals from substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano in the last 15 minutes gave Japan a stunning 2-1 upset over four-times champions Germany in their
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Group E opener 1/3
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Argentina won the
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Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon stamped her authority on the women's 1,500m final almost from the start on Monday and drove on relentlessly to take her second world gold in a startling three minutes, 52.96 seconds.
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Lionel Messi set up all three goals as Paris St Germain stretched their Ligue 1 lead to 14 points with a 3-1 comeback win at 10-man St Etienne as Neymar sustained a possible ankle injury and was taken off on a stretcher on Sunday.
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U.S. former first lady Michelle Obama and tennis great Billie Jean King led the tributes to Serena Williams after her U.S. Open third-round loss to Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday, likely the final match of her sparkling career.
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Hundreds of Chinese basketball fans waved national flags in a Shanghai arena ahead of an NBA game between the Lakers and Nets amid huge backlash against a tweet backing anti-China protests in Hong Kong
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France will not boycott the Beijing Olympics, French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Thursday.
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Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday that the Belarusian athlete who had sought protection from police during the Olympic Games was safe.
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South African swimmer Chad Le Clos joined shooters Michael Gault and Phil Adams as the most decorated Commonwealth Games athletes ever on Sunday when he claimed his 18th medal by picking up a silver in the men's 200 metres butterfly.
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Saudi Arabia's 2-1 victory over Argentina on Tuesday is rated the biggest shock in World Cup history by data company Nielsen Gracenote, moving ahead of the previous biggest upset, the United States' win over England in 1950.
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Teenager Coco Gauff will become the new world number one in women's doubles when the rankings are released on Monday after her weekend title win at the Canadian Open with fellow American Jessica Pegula.
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Saudi Arabia produced one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history to beat Argentina 2-1 in their Group C opener with goals by Saleh Al-Shehri and Salem Al-Dawsari stunning the favourites on Tuesday.
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Serena Williams is set to take part in the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati next month with her protected ranking, organisers of the U.S. Open tune-up tournament said on Tuesday.
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Joan Laporta, who presided over one of Barcelona's most successful periods, took his campaign to become president again to enemy territory by unveiling a colossal poster next to Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Tuesday.
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Wimbledon will be stripped of ranking points over its decision to exclude players from Russia and Belarus from competing at the 2022 Championships due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the men's ATP Tour said on Friday.
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Argentina's captain and top scorer Lionel Messi began his fifth World Cup in style on Tuesday with a 10th minute penalty against Saudi Arabia as he embarked on his final quest for the only major trophy that has eluded him.
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Ever since Canadian Kurt Browning landed the first quadruple toeloop in 1988, the four-revolution jump has proliferated in the world of competitive figure skating.
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Figure skating: Ambitious Hanyu fancies audacious quintuple jump
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French Open organisers defended their handling of the Naomi Osaka situation on Sunday but accepted that the governing bodies need to do better on mental health issues following the Japanese player's exit from the Grand Slam over her media boycott.
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American tennis fans in Brooklyn are getting the chance to watch Wimbledon matches in a distinctly British atmosphere this weekend at a replica of an iconic landmark
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Figure skating's twice Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu will miss the sixth Grand Prix event scheduled in Sochi, Russia due to an ankle injury that also kept him out of last week's NHK Trophy in Tokyo, the Japan Skating Federation said on Wednesday.
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Argentina have eased the pressure from their shock opening World Cup defeat at the hands of Saudi Arabia by beating Mexico on Saturday and can now approach their final group game against Poland with peace of mind, captain Lionel Messi said.
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With the cool stroke of a putter under ominous clouds hovering over the 18th green at Augusta National, Tiger Woods put an emphatic finishing touch on the most redemptive victory in sports history via
@FrankPingue
#TheMasters
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FA Cup clash features 'Justice League' film fans' push for 'SnyderCut'
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Teenager Letsile Tebogo has attracted comparisons to Usain Bolt after showboating his way to the under-20 100 metres world title in a record time with a scorching run in Colombia on Tuesday.
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Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela jumped 15.67 metres on Sunday to smash the world record in the women's triple jump with her last attempt, having already secured the gold medal.
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Sadio Mane was named African Footballer of Year on Thursday after a season in which he kicked the winning penalty for Senegal as they claimed their first Africa Cup of Nations title and repeated the feat when they secured World Cup qualification.
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Elaine Thompson-Herah, the only one of Jamaica's "Big Three" women to show up at the Commonwealth Games, was rewarded with the 100 metres gold medal on Wednesday, while Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala powered to the men's title.
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The president of Poland's swimming federation (PZP) has apologised after six athletes were sent home from the Tokyo Games due to an administrative error.
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Novak Djokovic is closing in on something that no man has achieved before, but for the Serbian "pressure is a privilege".
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Novak Djokovic, Tunisian world number two Ons Jabeur and six other top players will form the first executive committee of the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) as it fights for a seat at the table with the sport's governing organisations.
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