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[ad_1] Juventus have endured a terrible run, winning one of their last eight Serie A games, but victory at AS Roma on Sunday will be enough to book their spot in next season’s Champions League with three matches left to play. Massimiliano Allegri’s side, who missed out on European competition this season after they were […]

[ad_1] PARIS : Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo on Thursday inaugurated a colossal storage basin that will help reduce the risks of pollution in the Seine as the Olympics approach and make the river suitable for bathing. The primary goal is to have the Seine batheable by 2025, with the Paris Games boosting that aim, even […]

[ad_1] LONDON : David Sanchez has joined the struggling Renault-owned Alpine Formula One team as executive technical director after leaving McLaren in April only three months after joining. The French engineer, who will oversee the technical department at Enstone, started his F1 career in 2005 as a junior aerodynamicist with Renault F1. Alpine said in […]

[ad_1] MELBOURNE : The honour of captaining Australia sits lightly on Mitchell Marsh’s shoulders as he prepares to lead the team in search of an unprecedented treble of major global titles at the T20 World Cup in June. Marsh was confirmed as captain with the squad’s naming on Wednesday, continuing a remarkable comeback for the […]

[ad_1] LOS ANGELS: The Boston Celtics crushed the Miami Heat 118-84 to complete an emphatic 4-1 series victory Wednesday (May 2) and book their place in the second round of the NBA playoffs. The postseason top seeds, who were upset by Miami in last year’s Eastern Conference finals, avenged that loss in spectacular fashion with […]

[ad_1] Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic said he was not surprised by Jadon Sancho’s quality after the on-loan forward helped the German side to a 1-0 win over Paris St Germain in the first leg tie of their Champions League semi-final. Sancho joined Manchester United from Dortmund for 85 million euros ($91.11 million) in August […]

[ad_1] Tottenham have been forced to draw up two separate transfer plans, such is the close nature of the race for Champions League qualification. A tense sideline exchange between Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp raised fears the Egyptian winger could exit the club, but that might not be the case after all. Elsewhere, Manchester United’s […]

[ad_1] Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou joked Wednesday he was packing his bags for Sweden because the country has rejected VAR, which has again been in the spotlight in the Premier League. Nottingham Forest felt aggrieved at a number of decisions in their recent defeat against Everton while Chelsea had a stoppage-time winner ruled out in […]

[ad_1] MADRID, Spain : Fourth seed Elena Rybakina rallied from a set down to beat fellow Kazakhstani Yulia Putintseva 4-6 7-6(4) 7-5 in a two-hour and 48-minute battle as she advanced to her first Madrid Open semi-final on Wednesday. The 50th-ranked Putintseva looked on course to cause an upset as she put on a near-flawless […]

[ad_1] :Chelsea’s bid to make it five Women’s Super League titles in a row suffered a huge setback on Wednesday as they lost a 4-3 thriller to Liverpool, seriously denting the possibility of the Blues giving manager Emma Hayes a winning send-off. Liverpool secured their second successive home victory over Hayes’s side as the two […]