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Schedule around World Cup adds to pressure on players’ health – FIFPRO

Manchester City return to Premier League action next week with 16 of their players having played a combined 5,180 minutes in Qatar

The Independent UK

Sapporo to review plans for 2030 Winter Games bid

Sapporo is reconsidering efforts to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, with the city's mayor citing scandals linked to the Tokyo Olympics as a reason for the rethink.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Helene Elliott: U.S.-Canada Rivalry Series shows how women's hockey needs more support to flourish

LOS ANGELES — Hope sounded like high-pitched shrieks.

Los Angeles Times

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Sarina Wiegman offers support to Beth Mead as England forward deals with injury

Mead had enjoyed a phenomenal 2022 on the pitch until she ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament last month

The Independent UK

The International Olympic Committee is throwing tradition out the window. What will that mean for Brisbane 2032?

As the Sunshine State inches closer to hosting the world’s biggest sporting event, the IOC has shifted focus.

ABC News

Looking Back on the Year of Sportswashing

Between the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the World Cup in Qatar and the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, 2022 was the year of reputation laundering through sports.

Sports Illustrated

Strictly Come Dancing winners: Where are they now? Romance, a pregnancy and tragic death

The show has been running since 2004, when Tess Daly and the late Bruce Forsyth presented and many successful contestants have went on to do incredible things.

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What would a more sustainable World Cup look like?

Qatar’s World Cup is ending on Sunday, but the climate pledges that were central to the gas-rich Gulf nation’s successful bid to host the event are staying in the world of mega sporting events

The Independent UK

Alex Porter retires from top-level cycling

Alex Porter, whose snapped handlebar crash was a defining moment for Australian cycling at the Tokyo Olympics, has called time on his top-level career.

AAP

From Lionesses joy to Djokovic deportation, the best and worst of 2022 in sport

Matt Fitzpatrick and Ronnie O’Sullivan were also celebrating but Kamila Valieva’s Winter Olympics ordeal left a sour taste in the mouth

The Independent UK

2022 Notebook: Protests, strict COVID lockdowns tested China

After beginning 2022 by hosting a Winter Olympics inside a COVID bubble, China faced a tough year

The Independent UK

Paddy Barnes pens letter to IOC over boxing threat at Olympics

The International Olympic Committee is set to pull the plug on boxing's participation at the Games after Paris 2024

Belfast Live

Kamila Valieva among 55 Russians hit with sanctions for supporting invasion of Ukraine

Teenage ice skater Kamila Valieva is still awaiting the outcome of her failed drugs test which rocked the Winter Olympics, and saw the Russian star stripped of gold

Daily Mirror

Paddy Barnes pens letter to IOC chiefs in bid to get Boxing re-instated for the LA Olympics

The two-time Olympic bronze medallist is dispatching his words to federations worldwide, and to top stars such as Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields, to gain support

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David Wharton: Steel blades, tiny bruises and a new purpose in life: My search for ‘the moment’

There is something about the sport of fencing that no one tells you. Not at first.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Email hints Games committee was involved in bid-rigging

The investigation of suspected bid-rigging for contracts to plan test events for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics has found that the organizing committee sent an email to Dentsu Inc. prior to bidding with a list of bidders and a note stating, "We have agreed on them."

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Takagi named Japan Sports Awards' Grand Prix winner

Speed skater Miho Takagi, who earned four medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, including the gold in the women's 1,000 meters, was named the winner of the Grand Prix award at the 71st Japan Sports Awards on Monday.

ABC News

Cindy Hook named Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games CEO

US-born Cindy Hook stepped away from her role as CEO of Deloitte Asia Pacific earlier this year and says her number one mission is laying foundations to ensure a cost-neutral Games.

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The Independent UK

50 years later, sprinter Matthews welcomed back to Olympics

The International Olympic Committee says it will allow American gold-medal sprinter Vince Matthews back at the games more than 50 years after banning him for his low-key racial injustice protest at the Munich Olympics

ABC News

From Rooty Hill and Moscow to the Winter Olympics, Harley and Katya made their mark in figure skating — but then it all fell apart

Harley Windsor and Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya's figure skating pairing provided one of Australia's most unlikely sporting stories — and one of its most tragic.

Evening Standard

Keira Walsh column: Gareth Southgate should remain England manager... he has given players real belief

I can’t put into words what the mood will have been like at England’s base yesterday morning — being knocked out of a tournament is just the worst feeling.

The Independent UK

In Kenya, some Maasai turn from lion-killing to Olympics

Kenya’s most identifiable community is abandoning spear-aided lion hunting for a modern javelin competition at a biannual event called the Maasai Olympics

Daily Mirror

Ukraine minister slams “sickening” sportswashing amid potential Russian Olympic return

Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba was not happy with comments made stating all athletes should be treated equally - seemingly hinting Russian and Belarusian athletes may be allowed to compete at the Olympics again

Al Jazeera

At Kenya’s Maasai Olympics, warriors swap lion hunt for high jump

The number of lions in Kenya has plummeted from about 30,000 in the 1970s to little more than 2,000 today.

Reuters

Kenya's Maasai warriors gather to celebrate "Maasai Olympics," a rite of passage

Hundreds of youths from the Maasai pastoralists in Kenya gathered on Saturday at a wildlife sanctuary to participate in "Maasai Olympics," a ceremony promoted by conservationists as an alternative rite of passage for young men in the community.

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