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Kevin Durant says no decision on playing for Team USA in 2024 Olympics ... yet

NEW YORK — Nets star Kevin Durant says it’s too soon to make a decision whether to represent Team USA in the Paris Olympics.

Tribune News Service

Rudrankksh Patil's success story only bright spot in otherwise sedate year for Indian shooting

NEW DELHI: Rifle shooter Rudrankksh Patil's success story has been the only standout event in an otherwise sedate year for marksmen, where they even missed the high of the Commonwealth Games after the sport was given a short shrift by the Birmingham organisers.

The Times of India

Olympics: Men allowed to compete in artistic swimming for first time at Paris 2024

The International Olympic Committee has rubberstamped the proposal in the sport formerly known as synchronised swimming.

The Independent UK

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Fears for players’ physical and mental health after World Cup

Manchester City return to Premier League action next week with 16 of their players having played a combined 5,180 minutes in Qatar

The Independent UK

Schedule around World Cup adds to pressure on players’ health – FIFPRO

Manchester City return to Premier League action next week with 16 of their players having played a combined 5,180 minutes in Qatar

The Independent UK

Sapporo to review plans for 2030 Winter Games bid

Sapporo is reconsidering efforts to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, with the city's mayor citing scandals linked to the Tokyo Olympics as a reason for the rethink.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Helene Elliott: U.S.-Canada Rivalry Series shows how women's hockey needs more support to flourish

LOS ANGELES — Hope sounded like high-pitched shrieks.

Los Angeles Times

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Sarina Wiegman offers support to Beth Mead as England forward deals with injury

Mead had enjoyed a phenomenal 2022 on the pitch until she ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament last month

The Independent UK

The International Olympic Committee is throwing tradition out the window. What will that mean for Brisbane 2032?

As the Sunshine State inches closer to hosting the world’s biggest sporting event, the IOC has shifted focus.

ABC News

Looking Back on the Year of Sportswashing

Between the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the World Cup in Qatar and the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, 2022 was the year of reputation laundering through sports.

Sports Illustrated

Strictly Come Dancing winners: Where are they now? Romance, a pregnancy and tragic death

The show has been running since 2004, when Tess Daly and the late Bruce Forsyth presented and many successful contestants have went on to do incredible things.

Daily Record

India have power and skills to take on strong teams: Zafar Iqbal

NEW DELHI: Hockey legend Zafar Iqbal believes India have the power and skills to take on strong sides such as Germany, Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands in the World Cup next year in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.

The Times of India

What would a more sustainable World Cup look like?

Qatar’s World Cup is ending on Sunday, but the climate pledges that were central to the gas-rich Gulf nation’s successful bid to host the event are staying in the world of mega sporting events

The Independent UK

World champion rifle shooter Rudrankksh, Moudgil await big pay cheque from President's Cup

NEW DELHI: India's teenage world champion rifle shooter Rudrankksh Patil is not sure when he will receive the biggest pay cheque of his fledgling career -- 15,000 euros (Rs 13.25 lakhs approx) for winning the prestigious President's Cup -- due to a change of guard at the international shooting federation.

The Times of India

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Alex Porter retires from top-level cycling

Alex Porter, whose snapped handlebar crash was a defining moment for Australian cycling at the Tokyo Olympics, has called time on his top-level career.

The Independent UK

From Lionesses joy to Djokovic deportation, the best and worst of 2022 in sport

Matt Fitzpatrick and Ronnie O’Sullivan were also celebrating but Kamila Valieva’s Winter Olympics ordeal left a sour taste in the mouth

The Independent UK

2022 Notebook: Protests, strict COVID lockdowns tested China

After beginning 2022 by hosting a Winter Olympics inside a COVID bubble, China faced a tough year

Belfast Live

Paddy Barnes pens letter to IOC over boxing threat at Olympics

The International Olympic Committee is set to pull the plug on boxing's participation at the Games after Paris 2024

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Daily Mirror

Kamila Valieva among 55 Russians hit with sanctions for supporting invasion of Ukraine

Teenage ice skater Kamila Valieva is still awaiting the outcome of her failed drugs test which rocked the Winter Olympics, and saw the Russian star stripped of gold

Irish Mirror

Paddy Barnes pens letter to IOC chiefs in bid to get Boxing re-instated for the LA Olympics

The two-time Olympic bronze medallist is dispatching his words to federations worldwide, and to top stars such as Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields, to gain support

Los Angeles Times

David Wharton: Steel blades, tiny bruises and a new purpose in life: My search for ‘the moment’

There is something about the sport of fencing that no one tells you. Not at first.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Email hints Games committee was involved in bid-rigging

The investigation of suspected bid-rigging for contracts to plan test events for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics has found that the organizing committee sent an email to Dentsu Inc. prior to bidding with a list of bidders and a note stating, "We have agreed on them."

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Takagi named Japan Sports Awards' Grand Prix winner

Speed skater Miho Takagi, who earned four medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, including the gold in the women's 1,000 meters, was named the winner of the Grand Prix award at the 71st Japan Sports Awards on Monday.

ABC News

Cindy Hook named Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games CEO

US-born Cindy Hook stepped away from her role as CEO of Deloitte Asia Pacific earlier this year and says her number one mission is laying foundations to ensure a cost-neutral Games.

The Independent UK

50 years later, sprinter Matthews welcomed back to Olympics

The International Olympic Committee says it will allow American gold-medal sprinter Vince Matthews back at the games more than 50 years after banning him for his low-key racial injustice protest at the Munich Olympics

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