U.S. women’s national soccer team forward Catarina Macario was pulled from the Team USA Olympic roster due to a knee injury, head coach Emma Hayes told reporters on Friday. “She has minor knee irritation, which means she won’t recover in time for the games,” she said. Alternate forward Lynn Williams will replace Macario for the…
Pushing the limits is a common term in the world of motorsport. Taking a cue from Formula One champions Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, who all started out as precocious karters, is nine-year-old Atiqa Mir from Kashmir. She had a major headstart in her career and made her way through the pack in…
I have participated in four consecutive Olympics from the 1984 Los Angeles Games to ’96 Atlanta. It is not easy for a woman to compete in four back-to-back Olympic Games. I did so at a time when facilities were not great and qualifying marks were strict. I would pick the 1984 Games as the best…
Table tennis was introduced into the Olympics in Seoul in 1988. We, as table tennis players, did not realise the importance of Olympics. We knew that the Olympics is a big, big event, but it hadn’t really struck. In fact, I was not to go for the qualifications in 1988. The federation asked me to…
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has retained former players Mohammad Yousuf and Asad Shafiq in the revamped selection committee which will pick the teams for the home Test series against Bangladesh next month. Yousuf and Shafiq were members of the previous selection committee which picked the T20 World Cup squad. The PCB sacked members Wahab Riaz…
Jasper Philipsen won the 13th stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish and two-time champion Tadej Pogacar kept the yellow jersey on Friday. Several riders fell in a crash a few hundred meters from the line but Pogacar, who was just ahead, avoided it. Philipsen held off Belgian countryman Wout van Aert…
R. Sridhar of Coaching Beyond and former India fielding coach revealed that T. Dilip refused to apply for a fielding coaching assignment with Andhra Ranji team a few years ago despite a heavy pay packet offered. “He told me that his focus was only on joining NCA one day,” Sridhar said at a felicitation function put…
Golf will be played at the famed Riviera Country Club, while sailing and water polo will be held in Long Beach, according to an updated venue plan for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics released on Friday. Tennis will be held in Carson at the USTA Training Center in Dignity Health Sports Park while rugby sevens,…
Katerina Siniakova will play for a third women’s doubles title at Wimbledon after ending Hsieh Su-Wei’s winning streak at the tournament. Siniakova and Taylor Townsend beat the top-seeded pairing of Hsieh and Elise Mertens 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 on No. 1 Court on Friday. In Saturday’s final they will play second-seeded Erin Routliffe and Gabriela Dabrowski,…
Manchester United signed veteran defender Jonny Evans to a one-year contract extension on Friday after a solid season for the 36-year-old Northern Irishman. Evans, a United academy graduate, returned to Old Trafford last year after eight seasons away with West Bromwich Albion and Leicester City, and appeared in 30 games across all competitions including the…
