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Sport battles back to find a sense of normality
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 25/12/2021
» It is the time of the year to acknowledge the sporting heroes of the past 12 months.
IOC calls for ban on Russians from world sport
AFP, Published on 28/02/2022
» GENEVA: The International Olympic Committee on Monday urged sports federations and organisers to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from international events following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
'No war': Sport turns blue and yellow for Ukraine
AFP, Published on 07/03/2022
» PARIS: Players draped in Ukraine flags, pledges of aid and placards demanding "No War" and "United in Peace", international sport turned blue and yellow in support of Ukraine this weekend.
Golf was once seen as 'elitist sport' in Italy
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 18/09/2022
» This week's Italian Open brought back fond memories of me trying to qualify at Monticello Golf Club for the tournament back in the 1970s.
Sport leaders eye Africa as talent source, investment target
AFP, Published on 20/09/2022
» NEW YORK - Africa offers a vast underdeveloped market for global sports, with thousands of athletes ready to join international ranks if only there were major investment, industry leaders and stars say.
Cockfighting still a popular blood sport in southern Iraq
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» BASRA (IRAQ) - Two vicious roosters circle a filthy carpet in southern Iraq, facing off for a cockfight that has drawn dozens to a dimly lit cafe in the port city of Basra.
Women's sport revenues tipped to break $1 billion barrier
AFP, Published on 29/11/2023
» LONDON - Global revenues from women's sport will top US$1 billion for the first time in 2024 thanks to an explosion in popularity, according to financial experts Deloitte.
Patama hails Malaysia's Olympic House as landmark for sport
Sports, Published on 13/08/2025
» Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and president of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), has congratulated Malaysia on the groundbreaking of its long-awaited Olympic House, calling it a landmark moment for the nation's sporting movement.
'Weird and eerie' as Aussie sport plays to empty stadiums
AFP, Published on 20/03/2020
» MELBOURNE: Australia's hugely popular Aussie Rules season has kicked off in front of 100,000 empty seats on "the most remarkable, weird and eerie night in recent sporting memory".
The tennis jet-set think local to reboot their sport
AFP, Published on 24/04/2020
» PARIS - As the weeks go by, the globe-trotting world of top-level tennis remains in limbo and the season looks increasingly compromised by the coronavirus pandemic.