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Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah completes unprecedented ‘double-double’
Elaine Thompson-Herah confirmed her place among the pantheon of sprint greats as she secured an unprecedented women’s 100m-200m double-double with a sensational victory over the longer distance in Tokyo. The 29-year-old Jamaican surged home in 21.53 seconds, just .19 seconds off Florence Griffith Joyner’s long-standing world record, to back up her individual golds from Rio…
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Lewis Hamilton fears he has long COVID
Though he retook the points lead from Formula One championship rival Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton disclosed after finishing second Sunday that he still might be battling another nemesis: COVID-19. The seven-time F1 champion was treated by his team’s doctor for suffering from fatigue and mild dizziness after the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hamilton struggled to catch…
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Pakistan 157-8 vs West Indies in the second T20I
Pakistan, sent in to bat, reached 157 for eight from their allocation of 20 overs against West Indies in the second Twenty20 International on Saturday at the Guyana National Stadium. Summarised scores: PAKISTAN 157 for eight off 20 overs (Babar Azam 51, Mohammad Rizwan 46, Sharjeel Khan 20, Fakhar Zaman 15; Jason Holder 4-26, Dwayne…
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Jamaicans dominate Women’s 100m final to secure country’s first three medals at Tokyo Olympics
Elaine Thompson-Herah ran an Olympic and National Record 10.61 seconds (-0.6m/s) as she successfully defended her Olympic Games 100m title in a Jamaican sweep of the medals at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday. Two-time winner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was second in 10.74 seconds and Shericka Jackson took the bronze with a new personal record 10.76 seconds…
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Joella Lloyd out of the Olympics
Joella Lloyd will not advance to the next round of the women’s 100 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Lloyd finished outside of the top three in her second preliminary heat in the 100 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan. Running in lane two, the Antiguan clocked 11.54 seconds to finish seventh from…
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Lloyd wins heat in Tokyo
Joella Lloyd is through to the next round of the preliminary stages of the women’s 100 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Lloyd, who has a personal best of 11.19 in the 100 meters, posted a time of 11.55 seconds to dominate her heat with her closest competitor Asimenye Simwaka of Malawi finishing second in…
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Olympics opening ceremony director sacked for Holocaust joke
BBC: The show director of the Olympics opening ceremony has been dismissed, one day before the event is due to be held. Footage of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s recently emerged in which he appears to be making jokes about the Holocaust. Japan’s Olympic chief Seiko Hashimoto said the video ridiculed “painful facts of history”.…
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WHO leader says virus risk inevitable at Tokyo Olympics
The Tokyo Olympics should not be judged by the tally of COVID-19 cases that arise because eliminating risk is impossible, the head of the World Health Organization told sports officials Wednesday as events began in Japan. How infections are handled is what matters most, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech to…
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Hayden Walsh Jr replaces Roston Chase for CG Insurance ODIs
Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel today announced a change to the squad for the CG Insurance One-Day International Series against Australia. Leg-spinner Hayden Walsh Jr replaced allrounder Roston Chase, who has not recovered in time from the left thigh injury picked up in the Betway Test Series against South Africa Test and will therefore…
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WIPA Congratulates West Indies Women’s Team on Series Wins Over Pakistan
The West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) congratulates the West Indies Women’s Senior Team on T20I and ODI series wins over Pakistan. The West Indies women won the CG Insurance T20 International and One Day International series by 3-0 and 3-2 respectively. The women played entertaining, dominant cricket throughout the T20I series, and good, consistent cricket…
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Tokyo Olympics: First competitors have COVID at athletes village
Two South Africa footballers have become the first competitors to test positive for coronavirus in the athletes’ village in Tokyo – five days before the start of the Olympic Games. South Africa’s Football Association confirmed Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi as the cases. Video analyst Mario Masha tested positive on Saturday and the team is…