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[ad_1] WELLINGTON: Athletes on Tuvalu train on the airport runway in the absence of a running track, but the tiny Pacific nation will still manage to send a one-man sprint team to the Paris Olympics. Karalo Maibuca will jet across the world to race for Tuvalu in the men’s 100m at next month’s Games. The […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI : Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra won gold at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland on Tuesday and while the winning throw was well short of his personal best the Indian said he is happy with his fitness ahead of the Paris Olympics. The mop-haired 26-year-old became India’s first track-and-field athlete to […]

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO: Baseball icon Willie Mays, one of the greatest players in the sport’s history and beloved for his for dazzling skill and athletic grace, died on Tuesday (Jun 18) aged 93, his family announced. Mays’ family confirmed the baseball icon’s passing in a joint statement with his former team the San Francisco Giants. […]

[ad_1] Olympic 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs ramped up his preparations for the Paris Games by breaching the 10-seconds mark twice on Tuesday to win gold at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland. The Italian, who clocked 9.80 in the Tokyo final and also won 4x100m relay gold, finished top of his heat in Turku […]

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS : Regan Smith was so riddled with self-doubt the American thought her days of breaking backstroke records were gone for good, but after learning to tame her emotions she is once again on top of the world. Smith said on Tuesday that the newfound sense of belief in herself was key to regaining […]

[ad_1] China named its swimming squad for Paris on Tuesday (Jun 18). Among them were 11 of the 23 who tested positive for the banned TMZ and were named in news reports in April. The 11 includes butterfly specialist Zhang Yufei, who won two golds in Japan, as well as another gold-medallist in Wang Shun. […]

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS : Katie Ledecky said she is thrilled to lead a U.S. relay team at the Paris Games that includes 19-year-old Erin Gemmell, who grew up idolizing the seven-times Olympic gold medallist and even dressed up as her at Halloween. Ledecky immediately embraced Gemmell in the water after they both qualified for the 4x200m […]

[ad_1] Kane Williamson has stepped down as captain of New Zealand’s white-ball teams and opted out of a national contract for the 2024/25 season following the Black Caps’ early exit from the T20 World Cup. Williamson’s decision marks the end of an era for a New Zealand team which made the semi-finals of the previous […]

[ad_1] Britain’s twice Olympic medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown, Kate Waugh and Sam Dickinson are the final triathletes selected for the country’s Paris Olympics squad, the British Olympic Association said on Wednesday. The trio join Beth Potter and Alex Yee, who were named in the team at the end of 2023. “It’s really exciting to be naming […]

[ad_1] World No. 1 Jannik Sinner of Italy needed three sets to overcome Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Terra Wortmann Open on Tuesday in Halle, Germany. Sinner hit 15 aces to Griekspoor’s 11 and saved all four break points he faced while going 3-for-4 on […]