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[ad_1] :West Ham United have appointed former Spain and Real Madrid manager Julen Lopetegui as their new head coach, the Premier League club said on Thursday. Lopetegui, who previously coached Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League and will take charge of West Ham on July 1, replaces David Moyes, who left the London club this […]

[ad_1] KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Phunjo Lama smashed the record on Thursday (May 23) for the fastest ascent of Everest by a woman, conquering the world’s highest mountain in 14 hours and 31 minutes. Climbers usually take days to reach the top of the 8,849-metre mountain, spending nights on its different camps to rest and acclimatise. But […]

[ad_1] LONDON : On a rainy November morning in 2018, 15-year-old Dorsa Yavarivafa and her mother left Tehran for Turkey with fake German passports – the first thing she grabbed when she was told they were leaving at 4 a.m. was her badminton bag. The pair flew a month later to Germany, then to Belgium […]

[ad_1] Michael Schumacher’s family has secured 200,000 euros ($216,360) compensation from the publishers of a German magazine that printed an AI-generated ‘interview’ with the seven times Formula One world champion. A family spokeswoman on Wednesday confirmed a Munich Labour Court judgement and settlement by Funke media group, publishers of the magazine Die Aktuelle, without making […]

[ad_1] Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini is proud of bringing the Europa League trophy to Italy after 25 “cursed” years, the coach said after his side’s emphatic 3-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the final. Ademola Lookman’s stunning hat-trick helped Atalanta secure a second major trophy in their 117-year history in the final in Dublin […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI : Australia great Ricky Ponting was sounded out for the India head coach’s role but the 49-year-old said he is not in the race to succeed Rahul Dravid in that high-profile job. The India cricket board has advertised the job as Dravid’s contract expires at the end of the T20 World Cup […]

[ad_1] Novak Djokovic celebrated his 37th birthday with a 6-3 6-3 win over German Yannick Hanfmann on Wednesday in the second round of the Geneva Open. The world number one, who accepted a late wildcard to compete at the ATP 250 tournament this week after a less than ideal run-up to next week’s French Open, […]

[ad_1] MELBOURNE : Three years after COVID-19 dashed Ruby Trew’s Tokyo Olympics dream, the teen skateboarder from Sydney’s Northern Beaches is determined to make up for lost time at the Paris Games. Trew was part of a team of Australian skaters who were summarily disqualified from a 2021 Olympic qualifying event in the United States […]

[ad_1] DUBLIN : Ademola Lookman scored a stunning hat-trick as Atalanta beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the Europa League final on Wednesday to win just the second major trophy in their 117-year history and end the German champions’ remarkable unbeaten streak. Lookman, who struggled to establish himself in the English Premier League with Everton, Fulham […]

[ad_1] DUBLIN : Atalanta’s Europa League hat-trick hero Ademola Lookman admitted that he had to wait a while for success after years in and out of favour at different clubs but said it was “just the beginning” after he sank Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday. The Nigeria forward became the first person to score a hat-trick […]