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Tokyo Games official probed over contract

Haruyuki Takahashi, an executive board member of the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, may have received a total of over 45 million yen from one of the Games sponsors, Aoki Holdings Inc., through a consultancy contract between it and his consultancy firm, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Great Britain men and women to feature in World Rugby Sevens Series next season

World Series participation provides a considerable Olympics boost

The Independent UK

‘It’s all been worth it’: Jake Wightman in dreamland after emulating Cram’s gold

Jake Wightman hopes to build on his stunning 1500m world championship gold medal by adding the Commonwealth title and the European 800m crown during the next five weeks

The Guardian - UK

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CWG 2022: I am an Olympic medallist but don't want to stop learning; wrestler who bit me now a good friend, says Ravi Dahiya

NEW DELHI: "Training zor shor se chal rahi hai bhaisaab, bas jaake desh ke liye medal lana hai" (Training is in full swing. Just have to go there and try and win a medal for my country) - India's star wrestler Ravi Dahiya (57kg) told TimesofIndia.com while gearing up for…

The Times of India

Jake Wightman wins 1500m gold at World Championships as father commentates

Wightman won 1500m gold as his dad Geoff commentated

The Independent UK

Family affair as Jake Wightman clinches 1500m gold at World Championships

Wightman won 1500m gold as his dad Geoff commentated

The Independent UK

How Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Daniel Sturridge used 2012 tournament to make Liverpool transfer pitch

Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane, Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge all featured in the 2012 London Olympics

Liverpool Echo

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The girls want to work hard and go again: Janneke Schopman

BENGALURU: From also-rans to podium contenders, the Indian women's hockey team covered the distance at the Tokyo Olympics last year. But once the euphoria around their fourth-place finish ended, it was back to the grind for the team.

The Times of India

Inside the 'crazy' plan to boost track and field's popularity before the 2028 Olympics

With a gold-medal stride and an image gracing Nike marketing campaigns, Sanya Richards-Ross was one of the United States' most successful track and field stars during her decade-plus career — a stature she sustained, every year, by leaving the United States.

Los Angeles Times

Newcastle athlete prepared for back-to-back championships

"It just means when you get, in this case, three championship races in the space of three weeks, she's got the engine to do it."

Newcastle Herald

Dates Revealed for 2028 Olympics, Paralympics in Los Angeles

The city of angels will play host to the Summer Games for the third time in its history.

Sports Illustrated

L.A.'s 2028 Olympics will go from July 14 to July 30

The 2028 Summer Olympics are now — officially — six years away as Los Angeles organizers have set the dates for the massive international competition that will take place at venues throughout Southern California.

Los Angeles Times

Fraser-Pryce back on top, leads Jamaican sweep in 100 meters

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce sped her way back to the top of the sprint game, winning her fifth world title at 100 meters by leading a Jamaican sweep and knocking off the reigning Olympic champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah

The Hindu

Tom Dean vows to give his all at Commonwealth Games despite ‘tricky’ summer schedule

The 22-year-old Londoner followed up his two golds from last year’s Olympics with three bronze medals at the World Championships last month

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Rosie Eccles hoping to step out of Lauren Price’s shadow at Commonwealth Games

The 25-year-old has suffered illness, injury and Olympic heartbreak in the build-up to Birmingham 2022

The Times of India

Hockey at CWG: India aim to end Australia's dominance

NEW DELHI: The phenomenal success at the Tokyo Olympics has ignited hopes of the in-form Indian men's hockey team stopping the Australian juggernaut at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Los Angeles Times

U.S. women's track making strides with new wave of athletes

The unusual part for Chase Ealey on Saturday evening wasn't that she threw the shotput with her eyelids covered in dots and broad brushes of red, white and blue makeup.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Fraser-Pryce Back on Top, Leads Jamaican Sweep in 100 Meters

That mile-wide smile would come a split-second later. When Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce saw her name come up first Sunday night in the 100-meter final, she pumped her right fist in the air twice and let out a loud scream toward the stands. Yep, she did it. Again. And shame on anyone…

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Focussing on off-the-ball and man-to-man play ahead of CWG, says Nilakanta Sharma

The Indian men’s hockey team finished a disappointing fourth at the 2018 Commonwealth Games after they went down to England in the third-place playoff match.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kerley Leads American Clean Sweep in 100M, Shot Put Joy for Ealey

Fred Kerley led an American clean sweep in the men's 100 meters final at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday and Chase Ealey helped give home fans a night to remember with the first U.S. victory in the women's shot put. Kerley, the Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, timed…

Tribune News Service

Gavin Newsom reveals the motivation behind his Florida ad targeting Ron DeSantis

WASHINGTON — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron De Santis have been trolling each other recently on the pandemic, abortion, LGBTQ rights and more.

ABC News

Boomers centre Aron Baynes aiming for NBA comeback less than a year after Olympics injury almost paralysed him

Eleven months ago, Aron Baynes couldn't walk or hold a pen. Now he's in the mix for a new contract and will potentially play in his 10th NBA season.

The Hindu

Felix gets a bronze on her farewell at world championships

Allyson Felix won her 19th and final medal in the world championships Friday night — a bronze she took after running the second leg of America’s 4x400-meters in the mixed relay that’s been touted as the last major race of the 36-year-old’s career

The Guardian - UK

‘I could have been a Mo Farah’: trafficked boxer denied his shot at Olympic glory by Home Office

Kelvin Bilal Fawaz reveals how Farah’s TV interview was a reminder of how his own boxing career was lost to life in immigration limbo

WEKU

Jim Thorpe is reinstated as the sole winner of two events in the 1912 Olympics

The legendary athlete is declared the sole winner of the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of amateurism rules.

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