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Girls hockey programs show promise in nontraditional markets

The NHL playoffs will take place next week in Dallas, Tampa, Nashville, Raleigh and Washington, D

The Independent UK

Jonny Brownlee reveals extreme change he made to his home to prepare for Tokyo Olympics

Olympic gold medalist Jonny Brownlee has revealed he converted his own conservatory to adapt to Covid-19 regulations ahead of travelling to Tokyo last summer

Daily Mirror

Paris 2024 Olympics chief targets July for decision on basketball venues

Paris 2024 Olympics supremo Tony Estanguet on Thursday admitted organisers were still trying to decide where basketball games will be played during the Games.

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Anthony Ogogo loving life again after career-ending eye injury left him suicidal

The boxer turned wrestler was a bronze medallist at the London Olympics.

The Independent UK

2022 Winter Olympics GB Women’s Curling Team to be granted the Freedom of Perth

Councillors unanimously voted to bestow the honour on the team - which includes Perthshire's Eve Muirhead and Mili Smith - following their success in Beijing

Daily Record

Barcelona to spend a season away from Nou Camp amid redevelopment

Barca play home games at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys – the home of the 1992 Olympics

The Independent UK

Katie Taylor reveals how Roy Keane helped lift her after ‘lowest moment’ of career

Taylor had been defeated in the quarter-finals at the Olympics in 2016 when Keane called

The Independent UK

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Scott Maxwell: Florida Rep. Randy Fine calls school leader ‘whore,’ threatens Special Olympics

Florida author and columnist Carl Hiaasen always said it’s tough to write good fiction about Florida — because nothing you can imagine is more absurd than this state’s reality.

Orlando Sentinel

Mariah Williams eyes dual goals in 2022 post Olympic heartbreak

"Definitely not erased, definitely fuels the fire."

Newcastle Herald

Thomas poised on the eve of swimming greatness

When freestyler Eve Thomas swam a lifetime best to earn her ticket to the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, she surprised her coach - but not her mum, who won gold at the Games 36 years ago.

Newsroom.co.nz

Katie Taylor’s Long, Strange Journey

The native of Ireland became the best women’s pound-for-pound fighter after moving to sleepy New England.

Sports Illustrated

Asia Championships: Saina Nehwal wins opening match, Lakshya Sen makes first round exit

MANILA: London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal won her opening match but Lakshya Sen and B Sai Praneeth made first round exits from the Badminton Asia Championships here on Wednesday.

The Times of India

Vladimir Putin in staunch defence of Kamila Valieva as he slams ban on Russian athletes

Kamila Valieva has received the support of Russia's president Vladimir Putin after the 16-year-old figure skater's doping case rocked the Winter Olympics in Beijing last year

Daily Mirror

Brisbane Olympic board seeks 2032 boss

Appointing a chief executive for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics is the top priority of the organising committee board.

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Tribune News Service

Larry Stone: Storm legend Lauren Jackson gets second chance to revive career, and looks like her old self

SEATTLE — Lauren Jackson, on the shortlist of the greatest women’s basketball players in history, limped reluctantly into retirement six years ago. Her heart and mind were still willing, but her chronically ailing knees simply would not allow Jackson to play the game she had dominated for so long in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin Backs Russian Skater Valieva as She Faces Doping Case

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed support for figure skater Kamila Valieva on Tuesday, saying she did not compete "dishonestly" after her doping case dominated this year's Winter Olympics. Valieva was on the gold-medal winning Russian squad for the figure skating team event at the Beijing Olympics but no medal ceremony…

Evening Standard

Talking Point: What do you think of the Jubilee lineup of ‘national treasures’?

The lineup for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been announced to much fanfare online, with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Sir Cliff Richard and Bill Bailey getting involved in the biggest celebration of “Britishness” since the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. The “People’s Pageant” is to begin on Thursday…

Orlando Sentinel

Mike Bianchi: Woke sports organizations are ignoring women’s rights in transgender debate

They used to call Nancy Hogshead-Makar a leftist liberal, a tolerant Democrat and a fierce feminist who dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of female athletes.

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Salon

Sanctions won't stop Putin — this might

All along, Putin has counted on the fact that Europe needs Russian gas. But that's also his Achilles heel

Manchester Evening News

Denton teen who is UK's fastest sport stacker is hoping to go to Junior Olympics

Finley Newell has been dreaming of representing the UK at the Junior Olympics

Liverpool Echo

Celebrities you might not know have links to Wirral

You may be surprised that some of these celebs hail from the peninsula

The Independent UK

On This Day in 2013: Sarah Stevenson announces her retirement from taekwondo

Stevenson won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The Guardian - UK

‘No event compares’: the Invictus Games shows its fighting spirit again

The meeting between the Games’ founder, Prince Harry, and Dutch athlete Jelle van der Steen sums up its unique appeal

Chicago Sun-Times

Adolph M. Maestranzi, a Special Olympics silver medalist, memorialized after his death at 70

In an era when parents often were urged to institutionalize children with Down syndrome, the Maestranzis ‘chose an alternative path, helping him essentially to live a life of his own choosing,’ said Bob Okazaki, former head of Avenues to Independence.

FourFourTwo

Ranked! The 10 biggest women's football attendances ever

From the Olympics to the Champions League, these are some of the biggest women's football attendances ever

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