Men’s world number two Daniil Medvedev was among those to draw attention to the exhausting conditions players have been competing in during the Tokyo Games. In heat exceeding 30C (86F) with added humidity while his third round win over Fabio Fognini was still being played, Medvedev was heard saying to …
Read More »Texas man arrested & charged in Capitol riot case after Bumble match reported him to FBI
Andrew Quentin Taake, 32, was arrested on Friday and charged with five federal offenses, including assaulting officers, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds. According to the charging documents, Taake discussed his participation in the riot with “Witness 1” …
Read More »Algerian judo athlete withdraws from Olympics to avoid possible match with Israeli, says he won’t ‘get his hands dirty’
Fethi Nourine, the gold medal winner in this year’s African Judo Championships, withdrew from the Olympics after seeing that the draw set him up to face Israel’s Tohar Butbul in the second round if he won his first match. Butbul has a bye in the first round of the 73-kilogram …
Read More »‘You have no respect’: Female tennis aces in huge row after player halts match for injury when she’d lost 7 straight games (VIDEO)
Aussie star Tomljanovic overcame her Latvian rival 4-6 6-4 6-2 but was furious in the third and final set when Ostapenko asked for the physio at 0-30 after losing seven games in a row. Speaking to the umpire, Tomljanovic fumed: “Do you know that she is lying? We all know. Do you think …
Read More »Demolition stops play: Football match pauses before carrying on while huge UK power station plants collapse in background (VIDEO)
The Rugeley Power Station towers, which were made of reinforced concrete and once used to cool up to six million gallons of water an hour, were demolished in seconds in the Midlands town they take their name from on Sunday – grounding an icon of the region forever in a historic dismantling that crowds …
Read More »‘Turkey must learn’: Duo ‘given thousands of years in jail for conspiring on match-fixing charges against football giants’
Hidayet Karaca, who was the head of the Samanyolu media group that was later shut down by the government, is said to have been given a whopping 1,406-year term after being accused of organizing the tapping of phone calls and forging of documents. Ex-police chief Nazmi Ardic also copped 2,170 …
Read More »Historical statue topplers finally meet their match in ongoing culture war, defeated by befuddling British bureaucracy
When the statue of English merchant and philanthropist – and slave trader – Edward Colston was torn from its plinth and tossed into Bristol Harbour by protesters a year ago this weekend, it looked like mob justice was about to take hold across the country and bronzed likenesses of historical …
Read More »‘They’ll match us together soon’: Bellator sensation Avsaragova talks chances of fan-friendly fight with ‘beautiful’ Loureda
Avsaragova announced herself in the Bellator ranks in spectacular style earlier this month, needing less than 30 seconds to obliterate American opponent Tara Graff in their flyweight bout in Connecticut. The stunning KO victory improved the North Ossetia native to 3-0 in professional MMA, as Avsaragova began life with a bang among …
Read More »‘Action fell short to match the rhetoric’: Indigenous activists rip Biden admin for refusal to shut down Dakota Access pipeline
Representatives of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation accused the new administration of talking the talk but not walking the walk on Friday, after the US Army Corps of Engineers refused to intervene in the long-running row between the Native American activists and the operating company behind the Dakota Access pipeline …
Read More »Scandal in Spain: Both sets of players walk off the pitch as LaLiga football match is halted after alleged racist remark (VIDEO)
Both sets of players left the pitch with little more than half an hour gone after visiting defender Diakhaby appeared to furiously accuse Cala, who had opened the scoring for hosts Cadiz, of making a racist remark. The French defender had to be restrained by players from both sides before speaking …
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