China’s Yang Jiayu claimed gold in the women’s 20km race walk at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, pulling away from the field after the 5km mark and barely looking back en route to a victory that fulfilled a promise made to her late father. Yang crossed the finish line in one hour 25 minutes and 54 seconds, Spain’s Maria Perez secured the silver medal in 1:26.19 and Australia’s Jemima Montag won bronze in 1:26.25. “I never mentioned this before but...
Agency : Zheng Qinwen stunned women’s world number one Iga Swiatek on Thursday to become the first Chinese player to...
Sports Reporter : Left-arm pacer Shoriful Islam and left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan shone with the cherry as Bangla Tigers...
Agency : Refugee Olympic team boxer Cindy Ngamba said she hopes that by succeeding on a global stage at the...
Agency : Vanessa Gilles scored in the 62nd minute to give Canada a 1-0 victory over Colombia and send the team into the quarter-finals of the football competition of the Paris Olympics on Wednesday despite losing six points in the tournament because of a drone-spying scandal. Canada will face Germany in a quarter-final on Saturday in Marseille.Earlier in the day, the defending Olympic champions lost their bid to overturn the FIFA-ordered points deduction for filming an opponent’s practice in France....
AFP, Washington : Mohamed Salah and Fabio Carvalho scored first-half goals to give Liverpool a 2-1 victory over Arsenal in...
Argentine soccer player Angel Di Maria said Tuesday that safety concerns mean he will not finish his career in his native Rosario, after a bullet-pierced pig’s head was thrown at a family business. The 36-year-old, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 2022, had said he wanted to return to his boyhood club in the nation’s third-largest city, which has recently seen an explosion in gang-related crime. “There was a threat at my sister’s business: it was a box...
BSS, Dhaka : Legendary leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed will join Bangladesh to guide its leg-spinners in the upcoming Test series against...
Sports Reporter : Archer Sagor Islam of Bangladesh lost to Mauro Nespoli of Italy in the Recurve Men’s Individual event...
Agency :Hosts France secured a place in the quarterfinals of the men’s Olympic football tournament with a 3-0 win over...
Agency :Simone Biles is a different person than the one who abruptly pulled out of the Tokyo Games three years...