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Copenhagen, June 28 (AFP/APP): Champion Tadej Pogacar is the hot favourite and Covid-19 continues to provide a troubling background but the tension and expectations for this year’s Tour de France, which gets underway on Friday, are as high as ever. The 109th edition of cycling’s […]

London, June 28 (AFP/APP): Rafael Nadal overcame a scare in his Wimbledon opener on Tuesday, fighting back from dropping the third set and falling a break down in the fourth to eventually see off Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo. Second seed Nadal, playing on grass for the […]

London, June 28 (AFP/APP): Wimbledon results on Tuesday on the second day of the 2022 championships at the All England Club (x denotes seeded player): Men 1st rd Steve Johnson (USA) bt Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x18) 4-6, 5-2 – retired Women 1st rd Claire Liu […]

DOHA, Qatar – June 27 (ONLINE) Qatar warned the general public Sunday against the use of unauthorised vehicle license plates with the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 logo, after it auctioned off dozens of number plates for hundreds of thousands of dollars. “It is prohibited […]

London, June 27 (AFP/APP):Defending Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic became the first player to win 80 matches at all four Grand Slams on Monday while teenage star Carlos Alcaraz battled over five sets to make the second round. Six-time champion and top seed Djokovic saw off […]

Paris, June 27 (AFP/APP): Tadej Pogacar will begin his bid for a third straight Tour de France title later this week alongside four of the same teammates who helped him to last year’s yellow jersey. The Slovenian was unsurprisingly on Monday named in the UAE […]

PHNOM PENH, Jun 27 (XINHUA/APP): Maxine Wahome made history by becoming the first Kenyan female to win a World Rally Championship (WRC) support round as the Safari Rally concluded on Sunday. Wahome won the WRC3 title on home soil in the 2022 edition of the […]