Sun 31 January 2021: Yes I’m a Black man and I live every day proud that I am. No one, or no one comment, is going to make me feel any different,” Rashford wrote on Twitter late on Saturday. Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford says the racial abuse he received online after the 0-0 draw […]
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Thu 28 January 2021: The first Tokyo Olympics test event of 2021 has been postponed because of travel restrictions under Japan’s coronavirus state of emergency, organisers confirmed Thursday. The artistic swimming event will double as the sport’s final qualifier for the virus-postponed Games. It was due to be held on March 4-7 in Tokyo but will now […]
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Sun 24 January 2021: Conor McGregor was stunned by Dustin Poirier at UFC 257 as Notorious was knocked out in shocking fashion. McGregor was taken down by his opponent midway through the second round, of their fight in Abu Dhabi The referee was then forced to call the lightweight bout over as Poirier continued to […]
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Fri 22 January 2021: Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has contracted the novel coronavirus, the Spanish football club announced on Friday. “Real Madrid C. F. report that our coach Zinedine Zidane has tested positive for COVID-19,” the club said in a statement. The 48-year-old is the only manager to ever win the UEFA Champions League […]
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Tue 05 January 2021: Egyptian Liverpool football star, Mohamed Salah, has donated an oxygen tank to the Basyoun Central Hospital in Egypt’s southern governorate of Gharbiya “to support coronavirus patients’ treatment,” the local Nagrig Charity Association announced yesterday. Director Hassan Bakr told local Al-Kahera Wal Nas channel that Salah donated the “installation of a medical […]
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Mon 04 January 2021: Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed Pele with his 758th goal to become the second-highest goal scorer ever as Juventus defeat Udinese 4-1 on Sunday. Ronaldo has now scored 758 goals for club and country with majority of them coming during a trophy-laden career with Real Madrid. He has scored 656 club goals with […]
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Thu 31 December 2020: The Football Association has suspended Manchester United’s Edinson Cavani for three games and fined the Uruguay striker £100,000 for his use of the word “negrito” in a social media post. The FA said the comment was “insulting, abusive, improper and brought the game into disrepute” and also was an “aggravated breach” because it […]
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Thu 31 December 2020: Russian sumo wrestler Dzhambulat Khatokhov, who entered the Guinness World Records as the world’s heaviest child in 2003, has died at the age of 21, sports officials in his native region said. Betal Gubzhev, head of the body governing sumo wrestling in the southern Kabardino-Balkaria region, announced Khatokhov’s death on Instagram […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: Argentine football star Diego Maradona did not consume alcohol or illicit narcotics in the days before his death, an autopsy released on Wednesday said. Maradona, who died in November aged 60, had taken seven different medicines to treat depression, anxiety and other ailments but “there was no presence of [illegal] drugs,” […]
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Sun 20 December 2020: Qatar inaugurated the fourth of eight 2022 World Cup venues, the Al Rayyan Stadium, when the country hosted the Amir Cup final between Al-Sadd and Al-Arabi on Friday, Reuters reports. Al-Sadd, coached by former Barcelona and Spain midfielder Xavi Hernandez, beat Al-Arabi 2-1 to lift their 17th Amir Cup title after Algeria forward […]
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