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Out of Africa: Hard knocks the spur for history-making Coventry
AFP, Published on 20/03/2025
» COSTA NAVARINO - Kirsty Coventry says she has "learned the best lessons by failing" and the Zimbabwean swimming great's mantra appears to have served her well after she became the first woman and African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Singapore to end 180 years of horse racing
AFP, Published on 06/06/2023
» More than 180 years of horse racing in Singapore is set to come to an end, with the city-state's only racecourse closing and being redeveloped for housing.
Perth axed as host of fifth Ashes Test over quarantine rules
AFP, Published on 06/12/2021
» PERTH (AUSTRALIA) - Perth was axed Monday as host of the potentially pivotal fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England because of tough Covid rules which require players to spend 14 days in quarantine.
Jazz, Gunn in upbeat mood
Sports, Published on 27/07/2021
» TOKYO: Thai golfers Jazz Janewattananond and Gunn Charoenkul have found added motivation ahead of the men's golf competition at the Tokyo Olympic after compatriot Panipak Wongpattanakit's success in the women's taekwondo 49kg event.
Daily tests, cardboard beds: 24 hours at Tokyo's Olympic Village
AFP, Published on 13/07/2021
» TOKYO: For athletes competing at the Tokyo Games, the Olympic Village will be almost all they see, with strict coronavirus rules preventing them from leaving the compound except to train and compete.
Some people are not missing sport at all
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/03/2020
» Anyone reading these pages may well be suffering withdrawal symptoms of not being able to see live sport, or even read about it, because there simply isn't any.
An empty feeling in empty stadiums
Sports, Published on 14/03/2020
» Sport has experienced some difficult times over the years, but with the possible exception of World War II, nothing has ever created so much havoc in the world's sporting calendar as the current Covid-19 virus.