Merk: Olimpiese
US Olympic team to face WNBA players in Vegas All-Star Game
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Voting for the WNBA's team, which starts Tuesday, will be determined from a pool chosen by fans, players and media. Players can vote for themselves. KLIK HIER VIR MEER SPORTDEKKING . Coaches will chose the 12-p...
Australian baseball team pulls out of Olympic qualifiers, citing Covid fears
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Australia's baseball team has pulled out of Olympic qualifiers, met verwysing na die "insurmountable" challenge of traveling to Mexico during COVID-19. "Attending the Final Olympic Qualifier in a COVID world was always going ...
Australian baseball team withdraws from Olympic qualifying
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Baseball Australia’s chief executive Glenn Williams on Wednesday said the "gut-wrenching" decision to withdraw makes Olympic qualification impossible. The final qualifying tournament on June 22-26 was initially due t...
Olympic champ Rollins-McNeal banned 5 years in doping case
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The Athletics Integrity Unit said the American’s second career ban was for "tampering within the results management process" of doping control samples. KLIK HIER VIR MEER SPORTDEKKING . The 29-year-old hurdler’...
Imran Sherwani: Olympic hockey gold medalist reveals early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis
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London Olympic hockey gold medalist Imran Sherwani has revealed he has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, after first noticing symptoms while in his early 50s. Sherwani, who won gold with Great Britain at t...
Indian Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar arrested over death of fellow wrestler
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New DelhiTwo-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar was arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of a fellow Indian wrestler, according to Delhi police. Both Kumar, 37, and a second man detained over the same off...
A 32-year-old mom of two and Olympic medalist competes in first gymnastic meet in 9 jare
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An Olympic silver medalist and mom of two children came out of her nine-year retirement at age 32 to compete in a gymnastics tournament Saturday. Chellsie Memmel competed in two events at the GK US Classic in Indian...
Record-setting sprinter, ’68 Olympic activist Lee Evans dies
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USA Track and Field confirmed Evans' death. The San Jose Mercury News reported that Evans' family had started a fundraiser in hopes of bringing him back to the U.S. from Nigeria, where he coached track, to receive me...
Cuba baseball squad without visas as Olympic qualifier nears
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Managers and players expressed their concern about the lack of authorizations to attend the event even though they have sought to obtain them in more than three countries. Sanctions imposed by Washington on the islan...
Seahawks’ DK Metcalf vind steun nadat hy die beste hou op 'n 100 meter-wedloop teen Olimpiese hoopvolles geneem het
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Metcalf het in die negende plek geëindig, maar het op die puntelys geklop 10.37 sekondes. Hy het nie 'n plek in die laaste uitdun verdien nie, maar het beslis 'n paar verdedigers op sosiale media gehad nadat hy sy bes probeer het om die Olimpiese span te haal.. KLIK HAAR ...
Basketball star Liz Cambage criticizes lack of diversity in Australian Olympic team’s promotional photos
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Australian basketball star Liz Cambage has threatened to boycott the Tokyo Olympics while speaking out against the lack of racial diversity in promotional photos of the Australian Olympic team. Cambage, who helped ...
Bela Karolyi, former Olympic gymnastics coach, faces abuse accusations in secret police files: verslag doen
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Karolyi and his wife, Martha, faced the accusations in a new book "Nadia si Securitatea" by Romanian author Stejarel Olaru, according to The Daily Mail. The author published Romanian secret police files in the book d...
Olympic athletes promised legal support if they protest
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The pledges came one day after the International Olympic Committee confirmed its long-standing ban on "demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda" on the field of play, medal podiums or official cerem...
Russia’s flag banned but national colors on Olympic uniforms
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The International Olympic Committee told The Associated Press that Russian athletes in Tokyo will be allowed to wear a range of uniforms in national colors unveiled by models in a runway show in Moscow on Wednesday. ...
Olympic torch runs through empty park in Osaka as cases rise
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It came on the same day that the government said new coronavirus cases in Osaka hit 1,099, a single-day record for Japan's second largest metropolitan area. The torch relay began three weeks ago in northeastern Japan...
Olympic Gold: Men’s gymnastics struggling to survive
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The fact the former did not alter the outcome of the latter offered a stark glimpse into the steadily eroding support for men's gymnastics at the NCAA level, one that will eventually have a ripple effect up and down ...