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[ad_1] Former U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem will retire at the end of the 2024 season after going through a turbulent few years due to a wrist injury, the 30-year-old Austrian said on Friday. The former world number three has struggled to get back to top form after suffering a wrist injury in 2021, which […]

[ad_1] STELLENBOSCH, South Africa : Olympic triathlon champion Flora Duffy returns after an 18-month injury layoff this weekend but faces a race against time to be ready to defend her crown in Paris. The 36-year-old became Bermuda’s first gold medallist in a comprehensive win at the Tokyo Games but a knee injury has kept her […]

[ad_1] Former Manchester United midfielder David Beckham hopes a documentary about their 1998–99 treble-winning season can offer inspiration to the current side. Beckham won the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup with United 25 years ago, becoming the first English side to do so. However, United are now facing the prospect of having no […]

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: A top Malaysian footballer is “responding well” after undergoing a three-hour skin allograft surgery, a sports official said on Friday (May 10), following an acid attack that left the player in intensive care and shocked the country. The attack on Selangor FC and Malaysia winger Faisal Halim last week at a shopping […]

[ad_1] LOS ANGELS: Cleveland and Dallas turned the tables on their top-seeded opponents on Thursday (May 9), the Cavaliers shocking the Boston Celtics and the Mavericks silencing the Thunder to level their NBA playoff series at one game apiece. Donovan Mitchell led a comprehensive Cleveland effort as the Cavaliers powered past the Celtics 118-94 in Boston […]

[ad_1] Ten-time champion Rafa Nadal overcame losing the opening set to defeat Belgian qualifier Zizou Bergs 4-6 6-3 6-4 and reach the Italian Open second round in Rome on Thursday, as the Spaniard’s steady progress continued. Nadal, who last won the title in Rome in 2021, was given a stiff test by the 24-year-old in […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI : Run machine Virat Kohli produced a match-winning knock in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Thursday that will ease concerns about his strike rate ahead of the T20 World Cup next month. Kohli has been remarkably consistent in the 10-team league and is comfortably the competition’s leading scorer with 634 runs […]

[ad_1] ATHENS :Olympiakos Piraeus striker Ayoub El Kaabi netted twice as the Greek side cruised into a Europa Conference League final against Fiorentina thanks to a 2-0 home win over Aston Villa on Thursday that gave them a 6-2 victory on aggregate. Villa started well but El Kaabi, who got a hat-trick in the first […]

[ad_1] BERGAMO, Italy :Atalanta’s Ademola Lookman, Matteo Ruggeri and El Bilal Toure all got on the scoresheet to send the Italians to their first Europa League final with a 3-0 win over Olympique de Marseille for a 4-1 aggregate victory on Thursday. The Italians will meet Bayer Leverkusen, who overcame AS Roma, in their first […]

[ad_1] MELBOURNE : Australia’s long-serving goalkeeper Lydia Williams will retire from international soccer after the Paris Olympics, drawing the curtain on a career in women’s football that has spanned nearly 20 years. The 35-year-old Indigenous Australian will bow out after more than 100 international appearances and five World Cups with the “Matildas”. “This team is […]