Sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke will represent Ireland at the Paris Olympics in the 400m athletics events from August 5. The national athletics record holder has suffered a torrent of racial abuse online. But this has not discouraged her from aiming to become the first Irish woman athlete to secure a gold medal in athletics.
France on Sunday invited its nationals in Lebanon to leave the country as tensions continue to rise in the region after Iran accused Israel of being responsible for the assassination of Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh. France also urged on Friday its nationals in Iran to leave the country, while the US and UK issued warnings on Saturday for their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately.
Several marches are set to converge on the port in the afternoon to remember the victims and demand justice. Nobody has been held responsible for the August 4, 2020 disaster -- one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions -- which also injured at least 6,500 people and devastated swathes of the capital. Authorities said the explosion was triggered by a fire in a warehouse where a stockpile of ammonium nitrate fertiliser had been haphazardly stored for years. An investigation has stalled, mired in legal and political wrangling. Читать дальше...
World number three Sabalenka, seeking her 15th career WTA crown, was ousted by the 26-year-old Czech 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the hardcourt tuneup for the US Open, which begins on August 26. "A lot of things happened with the rain delay," Bouzkova said. "Happy I was able to start really well in the third set and then just close it out. Playing quite well," she added. "I'm very pleased." After Sabalenka, of Belarus, smacked a backhand winner to break for a 2-1 lead in the final set, a storm arrived and forced the extended stoppage. Читать дальше...
From apartments and cows to free business class travel for a year, many countries and territories around the world give a host of prizes to their athletes if they come home with gold, silver or bronze medals.
That remarkable personal journey, from Red Army propaganda movies to glamorous Hollywood roles directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and David Lynch, could not appear more different to Chen's character in new coming-of-age film "Didi." Chen plays Chungsing, a Taiwanese single mom and frustrated artist in California, whose 13-year-old is too busy trying to impress his skater friends and navigate adolescent crushes to be nice to his family. Yet the role -- which is already earning Oscars buzz -- "poured out of me... Читать дальше...
The 25-year-old American made six birdies against a lone bogey to stand on 19-under 197 after 54 holes at Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Oregon. "Had a really solid day. Just played really steady golf. Managed to get some putts to drop on the front nine," Lee said. "The pin locations on the back were a little trickier. Just tried to stay really patient. Finished the day pretty well." Dutch 36-hole leader Dewi Weber and US 19-year-old Alex Pano shared second on 198 with Germany's Polly Mack and American Angel Yin sharing fourth on 199. Читать дальше...
Algerian welterweight boxer Imane Khelif beat Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori by a unanimous decision in the quarter finals in the North Paris Arena Friday night after facing days of online abuse following accusations that the 25-year-old fighter is secretly a man. It’s a bittersweet victory for Khelif, who continues to endure rampant speculation about whether she and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting – neither of whom has ever identified as anything other than a woman – should be allowed to step back into the ring.
Reigning Premier League champion City scored goals 54 seconds apart in the first half and 71 seconds apart in the second half to dominate the fixture, part of a US pre-season tour for both clubs. Haaland wore the captain's armband and showed a crowd of 71,280 why he is considered among the world's best players. The 24-year-old Norwegian striker scored on a penalty kick in the fourth minute and, after a Moises Caicedo give away in the Chelsea half, smashed a right-footed shot into the right corner... Читать дальше...
The 31-year-old American, who previously won at the 2016 Rio Games and in Tokyo in 2021, managed a season's best of 22.90 metres with his third effort for victory at the Stade de France. Crouser's US teammate Joe Kovacs snatched silver with his sixth and last attempt of 22.15m -- the third time he has finished runner-up to his compatriot -- and Jamaican Rajindra Campbell took bronze despite registering the same distance. Other athletes to have won two consecutive shot put golds are the American pair of Ralph Rose (1904... Читать дальше...
Their team of Murphy, Nic Fink, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske touched in 3min 37.43sec to narrowly better the mark set by Britain at the Tokyo Games, when the event was first added to the Olympic programme. China, led by Zhang Yufei, took silver in 3:37.55 with Australia filling the podium in 3:38.76. It is only the second world record in the pool in Paris after China's Pan Zhanle smashed the men's 100m freestyle best. "We didn't talk about the world record," said Murphy, who gave the United... Читать дальше...