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  Final report clears WADA over China swimmers who failed dope tests

  A final report has concluded that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) did not show “favouritism” towards China in the case of...

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  Formula 1

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  Leclerc crashes as Verstappen heads opening practice in Azerbaijan

  Max Verstappen topped the times for Red Bull ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton in Friday’s crash-marred opening free practice at this...

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  Football

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  New Zealand women’s football coach quits

  New Zealand women’s head coach Jitka Klimkova has quit, the national football body said Friday, having skipped the Paris Olympics after...

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  Rafael Nadal pulls out of Laver Cup

  Rafael Nadal will not compete at the Laver Cup next week in Berlin, said the 22-time Grand Slam champion in a...

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  Football

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  Yamal wants to become a Barcelona ‘legend’

  Spain’s teenage prodigy Lamine Yamal said Thursday in a televised interview that he hopes “never” to leave Barcelona because he wants...

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  Football

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  Hamilton not disappointed by Newey move to Aston Martin    

  Lewis Hamilton on Thursday dismissed suggestions that he felt disappointed, or snubbed, by star designer Adrian Newey’s decision to join Aston...

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  Football

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  Maradona medical team’s negligence trial postponed to next year

  An Argentine court on Thursday delayed to March 2025 the long-awaited criminal trial of seven of the eight medical professionals accused...

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  Formula 1

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  Piastri not ‘pulling over’ for Norris at every race

  Oscar Piastri made clear on Thursday that he will not be pulling over to help his team-mate Lando Norris at every...

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  Formula 1

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  McLaren set to introduce team orders to support Norris title bid

  McLaren are poised to introduce team orders to support Lando Norris’s bid to beat Max Verstappen to the drivers’ world title...

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  Football

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  Former Celta Vigo player Mallo convicted of sexual abuse of mascot

  Spanish footballer Hugo Mallo was convicted of sexual abuse on Thursday by a Barcelona court for assaulting a woman dressed as...

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