India dominated the final day of the Spanish Para Badminton International II 2022, securing 11 gold, seven silver and six bronze medals. Having entered the tournament with the biggest contingent of 36 players, 16 of those had finals tickets with Paralympic champion Pramod Bhagat (SL3) and reigning world champion Manasi Girishchandra Joshi (SL3) bothRead More →
Drama on Sunday was taken care of courtesy of Group C, where both games found victors, most importantly by GM Richard Rapport, who is leading by a full point ahead of the last round. In Group A, two draws mean that GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Sam Shankland maintain their lead. GM Anish Giri played unconvincingly butRead More →
Today at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol in Cairo, Egypt, athletes completed medals in the last Olympic event – 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men. Gold was won by Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion – French Jean Quiquampoix. He brought the third gold medal for his team in these competitions. Second placeRead More →
Dozens of visually impaired youngsters are set to take part in the British Blind Sport National Youth Swimming Gala this weekend. A number of fun and competitive activities will be staged at Solihull’s Tudor Grange Leisure Centre between 1pm and 5pm on Saturday 5 March. The National Youth Swimming GalaRead More →
The finish of the 2021/22 Italian Women’s Volleyball Championship regular season (4 rounds to go, but some teams have to play a game or 2 more) promises to be utterly interesting in terms of fighting for the top seed. Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano returned to their home ground afterRead More →
Jumbo-Visma lit up Paris-Nice from the very first stage, with Christophe Laporte, Wout van Aert and Primož Roglič attacking on the final climb and team time trialling to the finish, where they celebrated a famous 1-2-3. New signing Laporte, who blew the bunch to pieces on the short late climb, was ushered through to claim theRead More →
Barcelona fought back to earn a 2-1 win at Elche on Sunday as a late penalty from Memphis Depay ensured they continued their revival after a difficult start to the season. Having fallen as low as ninth back in November, when former coach Ronald Koeman was sacked, Xavi Hernandez’s revitalisedRead More →
R Ashwin is an “all-time great”. Ravindra Jadeja is one of the “top allrounders”. This is what captain Rohit Sharma had to say about India’s two most consistent match-winners at home, after they took 15 wickets between them in the innings-and-222-run victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test in Mohali. In the second innings, inRead More →
Mike Krack was sitting at home feeling under the weather when the discussions began that would ultimately lead to him becoming Aston Martin’s Team Principal, as of March 1 2022. “I was at Petit Le Mans – and I probably caught Covid at Petit Le Mans,” says Krack, speaking onRead More →
Could three seconds a day of resistance exercise really increase muscular strength? That question was at the heart of a small-scale new study of almost comically brief weight training. In the study, men and women who contracted their arm muscles as hard as possible for a total of three seconds a dayRead More →
Viktor Hovland stormed into a two-shot halfway lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, as Rory McIlroy was left to rue a costly finish to his second round. Hovland, chasing a fourth victory in his last eight worldwide starts, mixed seven birdies with a lone bogey to card a round-of-the-day 66Read More →
Former Top 20 player Varvara Lepchenko was given a four-year doping suspension on Friday by the International Tennis Federation after she tested positive for a banned stimulant during a tournament last year. Her lawyer, Howard Jacobs, wrote in an email to The Associated Press that Lepchenko intends to appeal the decision toRead More →