World number one Novak Djokovic has claimed he was heartbroken to see former coach and tennis legend Boris Becker jailed before the weekend. After being found guilty of concealing assets and loans worth around $3 million in a 2017 bankruptcy, 54-year-old Becker was put behind bars for two-and-a-half years in the UK on Friday …
Read More »Djokovic ex-coach hints at Wimbledon boycott
A former coach of tennis ace Novak Djokovic has suggested that Wimbledon could be boycotted after banning Russian players such as Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev while also calling British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “crazy”. World number one Djokovic spent close to five years in Nikola Pilic’s academy before going …
Read More »French biathlon coach faces ‘hatred’ after supporting Russian athletes
French former biathlon star Simon Fourcade has revealed that he has been subjected to “hundreds of messages of hatred” after speaking out against the suspensions imposed on Russian and Belarusian athletes. Fourcade, 37, made a show of support for Russian biathletes when he rearranged a French flag into a Russian …
Read More »Biathlon coach explains why he rearranged French flag into Russian one
French biathlon coach Simon Fourcade has said it is “counterproductive” to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competition, explaining why he made a gesture of support at the Junior World Championships in America. A member of the Russian team, Yuri Batmanov explained this week how Fourcade had glued a …
Read More »Valieva coach reacts to criticism from Olympic chief
Russian figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze has responded to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach’s suggestion that she treated Kamila Valieva with “tremendous coldness” as the Winter Olympics star left the ice distraught following her final performance at the Beijing Games. Bach, whose organization had announced that it would not hold …
Read More »Valieva coach breaks silence on Olympic doping ordeal
Russian figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze says she does not doubt the innocence of Kamila Valieva, as the teenage star fights a legal battle to compete at the Beijing Olympics after a failed doping test. Valieva, 15, is awaiting a decision on whether she will be able to appear in …
Read More »Supreme Court to hear case of coach fired for praying
A Seattle high school football coach who was fired for refusing to stop praying at the end of games has taken the matter to the Supreme Court. Joe Kennedy, who worked as a coach for Seattle’s Bremerton High School, was dismissed from his job and sued by the school after …
Read More »‘This is ABUSE’: Row rages after UFC star Ladd’s coach accused of ‘almost making her cry’ as she suffers defeat (VIDEO)
Ladd stepped in at short notice to replace original headliner Holly Holm, having failed to make weight for a bantamweight showdown just two weeks previously. But moving to 145lbs – where many feel she is best suited – did not help Ladd as she offered little against Dumont, who was …
Read More »US running starlet files $20MN lawsuit against Nike & coach who ‘warned her breasts & bottom were too big’ & ‘called her too fat’
When she competed as a 17-year-old at the World Championships in Russia in 2013, Mary Cain was the youngest ever participant to represent her country at the competition and a red-hot prospect dubbed ‘the fastest girl in America’ by some. That November, Cain joined Nike’s Oregon Project training group, and in 2014 …
Read More »‘Nobody likes to be funny anymore,’ says US college football coach after quipping his team should be EXECUTED (VIDEO)
The top 10-ranked Notre Dame labored to a 41-38 overtime win at the Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, but things should have been much more comfortable after they held a 38-20 lead in the third quarter. Unimpressed with what he’d just witnessed, Fighting Irish coach Kelly went for his killer …
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