Spain playmaker Aitana Bonmati scored once and created another goal as the world champion came from behind to beat Japan 2-1 in the opening Group C match of Olympics women’s football competition in Nantes on Thursday. Olympic debutant Spain recovered from going behind to an early goal to avenge a 4-0 group stage loss to…
Third seed Elena Rybakina became the latest high-profile withdrawal from the Olympic tennis competition on Thursday, hours after the draw was made at Roland Garros. Kazakhstan’s former Wimbledon champion has pulled out of the singles and mixed doubles in which she was due to partner Alexander Bublik. ALSO READ | Paris Olympics 2024: Djokovic looks…
NEW DELHI: The Southwick and Shoreham Cricket Club, one of the most historic cricket clubs in England, has implemented a new rule that prohibits batters from hitting sixes.While this regulation might appear unusual to certain cricket fans , it bears a striking resemblance to a common practice in gully cricket throughout India.It is important to…
Six-time French champion Bordeaux will fold all its operations after failing to recover from its financial turmoil, as per reports. Reports say that the club informed the French Football Federation that it would renounce its professional status achieved in 1937. The contracts of all the players have been terminated, and the training centre will shut…
Shubman Gill, India’s vice-captain in white-ball formats, on Thursday lauded new head coach Gautam Gambhir for his clarity of thought, while hoping to establish himself as an all-format player in the coming months. Gill will be the deputy to Suryakumar Yadav in the shortest format and the second-in-command to Rohit Sharma in the ODIs during…
NEW DELHI: Shubman Gill, the young and talented Indian cricketer, expressed his admiration for the newly appointed head coach, Gautam Gambhir, during a press conference on Thursday. Gill, who has been named the vice-captain for both the T20I and ODI series against Sri Lanka, commended Gambhir’s clear and concise approach to the game.The young batsman…
France and the whole world need another ‘Belle Epoque’ at a time when Paris, the City of Light and Love, is hosting the Olympic Games, a symbol of peace and unity, for a third time exactly after a century of staging the 1924 edition in the troubled backdrop of a simmering domestic front and international…
NEW DELHI: The Indian opener Shafali Verma has emphasized the need for the team to enhance their performance in all aspects of the game as they prepare for the women’s Asia Cup semifinal clash against Bangladesh in Dambulla on Friday, despite their impressive run in the tournament so far.With an average exceeding 52 runs per…
Argentina men’s football coach Javier Mascherano said the team’s Olympic training base was robbed before its chaotic tournament-opening loss to Morocco on Wednesday The Argentina delegation filed a police complaint in Lyon, the prosecutor’s office of nearby Saint-Etienne said Thursday. “They went into training and they robbed us, in the Olympic Games,” Mascherano said after…
A Russian appeal against the decision to strip it of the figure skating team gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday. CAS banned teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva for four years for doping in January, effective from December 2021, a decision that also…
