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Olympic chief confident for LA Games despite World Cup ‘challenges
Olympic chief Kirsty Coventry said on Wednesday she was confident for the successful hosting of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles despite what she described...
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Paralympic Games
/ 4 years agoBeijing Paralympics to open in storm of controversy over Ukraine invasion
Tensions in the athlete villages, threats of competition boycotts and an eleventh-hour reversal to ban Russian athletes have marred the lead-up...
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Paralympic Games
/ 4 years agoRussian, Belarusian athletes banned from Winter Paralympics
Russian and Belarusian athletes were on Thursday banned from the Beijing Winter Paralympics over the war in Ukraine, with organisers bowing...
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Olympic Games
/ 4 years agoOlympics chief ‘on side of peace’ in Russia’s sporting exile
The head of the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday pinned full responsibility for Russia’s sporting exile on the Kremlin, insisting the...
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Olympic Games
/ 4 years ago‘Dark page’: German fury as Russia, Belarus athletes allowed at Paralympics
Germany’s Olympic and Paralympic governing bodies expressed dismay Wednesday over the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) decision to allow Russian and Belarusian...
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Paralympic Games
/ 4 years agoRussian athletes allowed to compete at Winter Paralympics
Russian and Belarusian athletes were given the all-clear Wednesday to compete at the upcoming Winter Paralympics, which open this week under...
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Football
/ 4 years agoSporting sanctions can land significant blow on Putin, say experts
Russia hosting the 2018 World Cup, the scandal-plagued 2014 Winter Olympics and Gazprom’s sponsorship of the Champions League were powerful tools...
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Olympic Games
/ 4 years agoIOC urges all federations to cancel events in Russia and Belarus
The International Olympic Committee, angry at the Russian invasion of Ukraine breaching the ‘Olympic Truce’, on Friday urged all international sports...
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Olympic Games
/ 4 years agoIOC slams Russia for breach of Olympic truce
The International Olympic Committee harshly criticised Russia Thursday for violating an “Olympic Truce” with its attack on Ukraine, and said it...
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Winter Olympics
/ 4 years agoAfter Beijing Winter Olympics, China eyes World Cup goal
After staging both a Summer and now a Winter Olympics, there is one major international sports event left for China to...
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Winter Olympics
/ 4 years agoBeijing Olympics closes after golden moments and doping storm
The Beijing Winter Olympics have closed with IOC chief Thomas Bach hailing a smoothly run event and a “safe Games” in...
