Thu 12 August 2021: Lionel Messi said on Wednesday that he is dreaming of winning the Champions League once again after joining Paris Saint-Germain. The Argentine superstar, who has signed a two-year deal with the French club, won four Champions League titles during his time with Barcelona, with the last one coming back in 2015. […]
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Sun 08 August 2021: On Sunday, Lionel Messi bid farewell to Barcelona, where he spent his entire professional career. “I never thought of it,” he remarked in an emotional, tearful press conference. “In recent days I’ve given lots of thought to what I could say and the truth is that I can’t think of anything,” […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: Police in the United Kingdom have made 11 arrests in relation to online racial abuse directed at England players following the team’s loss in the Euro 2020 soccer final against Italy. Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka were victims of abuse after they missed penalties in the shootout defeat at Wembley on July 11. The UK Football Policing Unit said Wednesday that of the 207 posts on social media identified as criminal, 123 accounts belong to individuals outside the United […]
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Tue 03 August 2021: The Greek Olympic Committee (HOC) has announced that Greece has withdrew from the Olympic artistic swimming contests after four of their swimmers tested positive for Covid-19. One athlete tested positive yesterday, and three more tested positive on Tuesday, causing the team to be ruled out and the athletes to be placed […]
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Sun 01 August 2021: Former international cricketers are being threatened and warned by the Indian cricket board against taking part in the inaugural Kashmir Premier League (KPL) cricket tournament, organisers and players have said. The KPL is scheduled to start from August 6 in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and will be contested by six teams […]
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Fri 30 July 2021: South African Tatjana Schoenmaker smashed the long-standing women’s 200m breaststroke world record on Friday to win the Olympic gold medal. The 24-year-old timed 2min 18.95sec to better the 2:19.11 set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen in 2013. America’s Lilly King was second in 2:19.92 with her team-mate and training partner Annie […]
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Tue 27 July 2021: Tatjana Schoenmaker won silver in the women’s 100m breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday morning, kicking off an all-female two-medal haul for Team SA. Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, has congratulated Tatjana Schoenmaker for winning a silver medal in the women’s 100m breaststroke final at the Tokyo […]
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Mon 26 July 2021: Sudanese judoka Mohamed Abdalrasool has withdrawn from the Olympics Games in Tokyo after being absent from a scheduled fight against an Israeli opponent. Abdalrasool was set to face Israel’s Tohar Butbul in the men’s 73kg division today, but did not show up in the round of 32 despite weighing in for […]
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Mon 26 July 2021: The number of COVID-19 cases at the Tokyo Olympics has climbed to 148, according to the organizers of the major sporting event. The organisers, in their daily COVID-19 update, announced that three athletes, four contractors, eight Games-concerned personnel and one Games employee have been found to be COVID positive, taking the […]
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Sun 25 July 2021: After three outstanding wins in the Tokyo Games’ taekwondo tournament on Sunday, Iranian refugee Kimia Alizadeh is one victory away from claiming the Refugee Olympic Team’s 1st ever medal. Alizadeh shocked two-time Olympic gold medalist Jade Jones in the round-of-16, beating the British champion 16-12. She went on to defeat Zhou […]
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