Antonio Conte’s notoriously prickly personality was on full view after Napoli’s humiliating start to the Serie A season at Verona, and Bologna is likely to further test his team and patience on Sunday. Napoli has had a difficult summer after last season’s disastrous league title defence but the size of the task facing Conte was…
Top-seeded Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil beat Clara Burel of France 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the semifinals of Tennis in the Land. Haddad Maia, ranked No. 23 in the world, has not lost a set in the first three rounds of the WTA 250 event at the Nautica Waterfront District. “Today was also…
Neeraj Chopra finished second in the Lausanne Diamond League after managing a best throw of 89.49m on Thursday. Grenada’s Anderson Peters took top honours with a monstrous 90.61m final throw. After throwing in the 83m range for most part of the night, two clutch throws in the fifth and sixth attempt ensured Neeraj’s track record…
Neeraj Chopra registered a season-best 89.49m with his final throw to finish second in the javelin final at the Lausanne Diamond League on Thursday. Paris Olympics bronze medallist Anderson Peters finished first with a Meet Record of 90.61m breaking the previous record of 90.16 set by Keshorn Walcott in 2015. ALSO READ | Neeraj Chopra finishes second…
Emmanuel Wanyonyi went close to breaking David Rudisha’s vaunted 800m world record in Thursday’s Diamond League meet in Lausanne in what was a mixed night for Olympic champions making their return after the Paris Games. Wanyonyi repeated the blistering form that saw him win in the French capital, going within 0.20 seconds of the 1min…
Neeraj Chopra was visibly struggling enroute his second-place finish at the Lausanne Diamond League. A long-term issue in his adductors has been triggering some discomfort in his groin for the better part of a year now, forcing him to focus on injury prevention more than going all-out in his throws. Thursday night in the Swiss…
Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois announced on Thursday that he would no longer play for the Belgium national team under current coach Domenico Tedesco. Courtois, widely regarded as one of the best keepers in the world, was left out of the Belgium squad for the European Championship following a row with Tedesco last year. He…
A team that played in a basketball tournament in Russia usurped the colors and name of the Colombian national team, the country’s basketball federation said Thursday. The federation said it will take legal action “for the improper use of our image and logo” and that it never received a formal proposal to participate in the…
Neeraj Chopra registered a season-best 89.49m with his final throw to finish second in the javelin final at the Lausanne Diamond League on Thursday. The 26-year-old is coming into the meet after winning the silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, landing the javelin at a season-best distance of 89.45m. Neeraj was expected to pull…
Jamie Smith’s latest Test fifty took England into a narrow first-innings lead in its series opener against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford on Thursday. England was 259 for six in reply to Sri Lanka’s 236, a slender advantage of 23 runs, when a combination of bad light and rain forced an early close to the…
