Thousands of Cubans on Monday night welcomed home the island's Paris 2024 team led by five-time Olympic gold wrestling champion Mijain Lopez. A bus carrying the team drove through the streets of the capital Havana to the La Piragua plaza on the Malecon waterfront esplanade, where people were waiting at midnight
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Olympic flag arrival kicks off 2028 pressure for Los Angeles
The Olympic flag arrived under bright skies Monday in Los Angeles, where officials now have four short years to organize a Games capable of rivaling the widely praised Paris edition in a notoriously traffic-clogged metropolis. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass landed in a plane emblazoned with palm trees and the logo
Bangladesh KUP demands resignation of all BCB directors
Bangladesh Krira Unnoyon Parishad (KUP) held a protest meeting and human chain outside of the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of all directors of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). Citing the reason that the BCB directors' corruption ruined the Bangladesh cricket in the last 15
Defending champion Pegula to face Anisimova in Toronto final
Defending champion Jessica Pegula advanced to the WTA Toronto Masters final on Sunday by defeating Diana Shnaider 6-4, 6-3, giving her a chance to be the event's first back-to-back winner since 2000. Sixth-ranked Pegula eliminated the 24th-ranked Russian in 83 minutes to book an all-American final on Monday against Amanda Anisimova,
England’s Rai wins PGA Wyndham title as Greyserman collapses
Aaron Rai withstood a 36-hole marathon final Sunday to win the rain-hit Wyndham Championship, taking his first PGA title after American Max Greyserman squandered a four-stroke lead. The 29-year-old Englishman sank a birdie putt on the last hole from just inside seven feet in the gloom of twilight to secure the
Olympics equipment heads for second life post-Games
The stands have fallen quiet and the Athletes' Village is emptying. What happens to all the equipment now the 2024 Paris Olympics are over? Organisers have plans for it. Over decades, the Olympics have forged a reputation for monumental waste, with whole stadiums sometimes left to rot once the two-week sporting
Top Afghanistan T20 cricket league opens with star players to appear
Afghanistan's leading T20 domestic cricket league opened on Monday with multiple star national players set to participate for the first time since the Taliban return to power, the country's cricket board said. Kabul Cricket Stadium hosted the first match between the defending champions Speenghar Tigers and Band-e-Amir Dragons in front of
Shakib’s selection was based solely on his performance: Ashraf
Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu, the chairman of the national team selection panel, clarified that Shakib Al Hasan's performance and experience were considered in his selection for the upcoming two-match Test series against Pakistan. He also made it clear that the ace allrounder will be available for all eight Tests of Bangladesh
Call to close the road for active cricketers to join politics
National team selection panel chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu became the latest one to urge that the path for the active cricketers to join politics should be closed forever. He also urged the political parties not to include any active sportsmen in their politics. "The reforms that we are talking about, I
