Ibtihaj Muhammad is an American sabre fencer and member of the United States fencing team (FILE PHOTO) Tue 30 April 2024: With the Paris Olympic Games around the corner, a huge controversy has broken out with regard to the dress of the participating athletes. It is learnt that France has decided to allow the […]
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Sun 21 April 2024: Armand “Mondo” Duplantis on Saturday broke the pole vault world record at Diamond League competition in Xiamen, China. The reigning world and Olympic champion cleared 6.24 meters to break the record for the eighth time in his career. The 24-year-old previously cleared heights of 5.62m, 5.82m, 6.00m, and, last September, […]
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Sun 21 April 2024: Tunde Onakoya, a Nigerian chess champion broke the world record for the longest chess marathon by going unbeaten for more than 58 hours in Times Square, New York City, to raise funds for needy children. Onakoya, 29, began his marathon session on Wednesday, intending to earn $1 million for children’s education […]
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A view of summer Olympic 2024 host city Paris (Source: @OlympicsParis) Photograph:(Twitter) Mon 15 April 2024: French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics will be rescheduled if there is a substantial risk of a terrorist attack, and that backup preparations are in place to deal with […]
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Mon 08 April 2024: Novak Djokovic achieved another milestone in his glittering career when he became the oldest world number one tennis player. Djokovic reached the mark at 36 years 321 days on Sunday, making him one day older than former long time rival Roger Federer when the Swiss last topped the rankings in June […]
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Morocco is set to make history with the construction of the Grand Stade de Casablanca, a proposed stadium that would be the largest football stadium in the world. The North African country will host the 2030 FIFA World Cup alongside Spain and Portugal, with aspirations for the mega-project to surpass Spain’s Bernabeu or Camp Nou as the […]
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Mon 01 April 2024: Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Saturday Russian and Belarusian athletes “were not welcome” at the Olympics being staged in the French capital this year. “I want to tell Russian and Belarusian athletes that they are not welcome in Paris and to tell Ukrainian athletes and all the Ukrainian people that we support them very […]
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Thu 21 March 2024: 220,000 condoms will be given out by the Paris Olympics organizers to competitors who wish to get romantic during this year’s Games in the City of Love. Athletes are free to engage in sexual activity even if their primary concentration is on sports; this is in contrast to the last Olympics […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic will skip the Miami Open saying, less than a week after a surprise loss at Indian Wells, that he needs to balance his “private and professional schedule”. Djokovic’s announcement Saturday on his social media accounts follows his 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 defeat to unheralded Luca Nardi on Monday in the third […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: German sportswear giant Adidas saw a net loss in 2023, according to a press release on Wednesday. The company’s net loss was €58 million ($63.4 million) in 2023, down from a net income of €254 million in 2022. Sales totaled €21.4 billion last year, down by 4.8% on a yearly basis. […]
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