Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica won the women’s 100m in Nairobi in 10.67 seconds, the quickest time so far this year. Only four other ladies have run the distance quicker. After Namibia’s Christine Mboma, the Olympic silver medalist in the 200m, pulled up, Fraser-Pryce won convincingly on Saturday. “This is something I’ve been doing for 13 … Read more
Hunter Armstrong qualified for the 2022 swimming World Championships by setting a world record of 23.71 seconds in the 50m backstrokes in the US trials in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Thursday. At the European Championships in Budapest on May 18, 2021, Armstrong, 21, smashed the previous world record of 23.80 set by Russian Kliment Kolesnikov. … Read more
With a strong 200m freestyle victory at the US trials on Wednesday, Katie Ledecky stamped her ticket to a second individual event at the 2022 World Championships. Ledecky, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist in the 200m freestyle, swam 1min 55.15sec to win by nearly two seconds over 15-year-old Claire Weinstein (1:57.08). Ledecky’s time placed her … Read more
Oscar Valdez of Mexico and Shakur Stevenson of the United States, both undefeated super featherweight champions, will meet in a boxing unification bout on Saturday in Las Vegas. The winner of the bout between World Boxing Council champion Valdez (30-0, 23 KOs) and World Boxing Organization champion Stevenson (17-0, 9 KOs) would be crowned the … Read more
Double Olympic skiing champion Chloe Kim said she will sit down out the 2022-23 season to attention to her mental health after a “draining” year. The American became the youngest woman to say an Olympic gold in snowboarding whilst she received the halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Games as a 17-year-vintage and defended her title … Read more
James Harayda, showing the herbal steeliness of a sailor, picked himself up from the disappointment of his Olympic dream being dashed and is bidding to come to be the youngest competitor in the 2024 Vendee Globe. The 24-year-old Singaporean-born yachtsman can also by no means have skilled cruising within the Southern Ocean however records-making lady … Read more
Former Olympic biking champion Bradley Wiggins has discovered he changed into sexually groomed by an educator whilst he changed into a child. Wiggins, who gained the 2012 Tour de France winner and 3 Olympic gold medals, claimed he become simply thirteen when he changed into groomed by means of the unnamed education. He stated he … Read more
US track and subject remarkable Allyson Felix showed Wednesday she will retire this 12 months, bringing the curtain down on a profession that spanned 3 decades and covered a record-setting 11 Olympic medals The 36-year old said in an Instagram publish she deliberate to embark on her farewell season as a gesture of gratitude to … Read more
Allyson Felix, the legendary American track and field athlete, announced on Wednesday that she will retire this year, concluding a three-decade career that featured a record-setting 11 Olympic gold. In an Instagram post, the 36-year-old stated that she planned to enter her final season as an expression of thanks to the sport. “I have given … Read more
Nao Kodaira, a former Olympic speed skater champion from Japan, said on Tuesday that she will retire from the sport in October after a farewell event in her birthplace of Nagano. In Pyeongchang four years ago, the 35-year-old earned Olympic gold in the women’s 500 metres and silver in the 1,000 metres. In Pyeongchang 2010, … Read more
LOS ANGELES: Alexander Zverev was handed a suspended sentence on Monday following his violent outburst and disqualification in Acapulco last month, the ATP Tour said. The 24-year-old Olympic champion was banned for eight weeks and fined an additional $25,000 following his Mexico meltdown. The world number three had already been fined $40,000 for verbal abuse … Read more
Track cycling great Jason Kenny has announced his retirement, with Britain’s most successful Olympic competitor moving into coaching. The 33-year-old revealed that he has started work as British Cycling’s men’s podium sprint coach and is in charge of several riders who were his teammates until recently. Kenny’s seventh Olympic Gold medal came in the keirin … Read more
Pakistan’s economic hub, Karachi, is unable to host various sporting events, mainly due to the poor infrastructure in the city. When it comes to hosting Olympic sports, the first venue that pops up in mind is the National Coaching Centre (NCC), which was capable of hosting many games in the past but now it is … Read more
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a relatively new sport in the country but in a short span of time, Pakistani athletes have put the country on the map of combat sports. Recently, a five-man contingent comprising Ismail Khan, Zulqarnain Khan, Eman Khan, Abu Bakar Munir and Taimoor Khan, under the banner of Pakistan Mixed Martial … Read more
Russia’s 15-year-old prodigy Kamila Valieva came to Beijing favourite for figure skating Olympic gold. Now she is at the center of a doping scandal that threatens to torpedo her fledgling career. “When I was three years old I would tell my mother, I want to be an Olympic champion,” she said on Monday after she … Read more
Nathan Chen won a dominant figure skating gold for his first Olympic title as reigning champion Yuzuru Hanyu fell twice on the ice and failed to win a medal in Beijing on Thursday. One of the most eagerly anticipated events of the Games came as the IOC refused to comment on a reported doping case involving another figure … Read more
Johannes Strolz of Austria overcame adversity to win Olympic alpine combined gold on Thursday, following in the footsteps of his father. Strolz, who was fourth after the first downhill, clocked the quickest slalom run to finish first in a combined time of 2min 31.43sec, matching his father Hubert’s performance at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. Aleksander … Read more
US freestyle skier Colby Stevenson said Tuesday he wants to put his traumatic past behind him as he goes for Olympic glory in Beijing, having survived a near-fatal car crash six years ago. On Wednesday, the 24-year-old qualified fifth for the men’s freeski Big Air final and reflected on a watershed moment in his short … Read more
China did not appear at a Winter Olympics until 1980 at Lake Placid and has hardly sparkled since, winning one gold medal — in short track speed skating — at the last Games, in South Korea’s Pyeongchang, in 2018. China topped the medals table at its 2008 Summer Olympics but expectations are much lower for the next month’s Beijing Games … Read more
Sui Wenjing and Han Cong have an intense bond that has overcome injury setbacks and sparked persistent rumors of romance — and makes them among the favorites for figure skating gold at next month’s Beijing Olympics. The Chinese pair have been skating together since they were teenagers, building a strong working relationship that propelled them … Read more
BEIJING: China is battling coronavirus outbreaks in several cities, testing the country’s strict “zero-Covid” strategy just weeks before Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics. Here’s a rundown of the measures in place in key areas of the world’s most populous nation. Tianjin Fears are growing about China’s largest domestic Omicron cluster to date in the … Read more
BEIJING: The Beijing Winter Olympics will be spread over three zones and merge new venues with existing ones from the 2008 Games, including the “Bird’s Nest” stadium. With one month to go, AFP Sport looks at where the Olympics will take place: Beijing The 80,000-seater “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium — whose cross-hatched steel girders produce a nest-like … Read more
BEIJING: The Beijing Winter Olympics begin one month on Tuesday with diplomatic boycotts, the coronavirus and the fate of Peng Shuai all hanging heavy over the Games. The Chinese capital on February 4-20 will become the first host of a Winter and Summer Olympics, having staged the Games in 2008, seen then as a coming-out party for … Read more
PARIS: Ski ace Mikaela Shiffrin and tennis star Andrey Rublev tested positive for Covid-19 just weeks from the Winter Olympics and Australian Open respectively as a global sport once again felt the chill wind of the coronavirus. Two-time Olympic gold medallist Shiffrin will miss this week’s World Cup races in Lienz — but with a … Read more
TOKYO: Tokyo Olympics organisers revised the estimated cost of the Covid-postponed Games downwards on Wednesday, but the figure was still around double the budget proposed in the city’s original 2013 bid. Despite losing out on ticket sales due to a near-total ban on spectators, organisers said they had saved cash by simplifying events and avoiding the … Read more
SYDNEY: Australia will not send officials to February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, joining a US diplomatic boycott of the Games. Canberra’s decision comes amid “disagreement” with China over a slew of issues that have plunged relations into the most serious crisis since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. … Read more
BEIJING: From human rights to coronavirus and tennis star Peng Shuai, February’s Beijing Olympics have been overshadowed by several controversies. With under two months, until the Games begin, the United States on Monday reacted by announcing a diplomatic boycott. AFP Sports looks at the issues hanging over the Olympics: Peng Shuai There was a grave international concern … Read more
BEIJING: The United States has announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s human rights record, particularly its handling of Muslim minorities that Washington considers a form of genocide. Here’s what the move means. What is a ‘diplomatic boycott?’ Under the boycott, the Biden administration will not send any US diplomatic or … Read more
