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US basketball star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia extended by one month

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Brittney Griner will spend at least one more month being detained in Russia following her arrest at a Moscow airport in February

Daily Mirror

Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic gold will inspire Indians: Justin Gatlin

BENGALURU: Justin Gatlin thinks that he’ll score a zero, on a scale of ten, for flamboyance, unlike many other track stars from USA and Jamaica. But the man who won medals from 2003 World Indoors to the 2019 Doha World Championships, comes across as a down-to-earth champion who battled back…

The Times of India

A closer look at Amir Khan as one of Britain’s most entertaining boxers retires

Khan won Olympic silver as a teenager, was world champion at 22 and unified the light-welterweight division before his 25th birthday.

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Amir Khan announces retirement from boxing

The 2004 Olympic silver medallist became a unified world champion

Wales Online

Vladimir Putin fuming his 'secret' gymnast mistress is pregnant again

Putin was told his Olympic rhythmic gymnast girlfriend is expecting just as he was preparing for Russia's Victory Day parade

Wales Online

Dina Asher-Smith urges UKA to stick with London amid exit reports

Dina Asher-Smith has urged UK Athletics to keep a London base amid reports that it is in preliminary talks over a £10-15m deal to quit the Olympic Stadium

The Guardian - UK

Olympic legend Adam Peaty "devastated" after freak injury ends 'quadruple double' bid

Olympic icon Adam Peaty has suffered a shock foot injury which has ruled him out of the FINA world championships in Budapest next month - but he is fighting to be fit for the Commonwealth Games

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Inside Prince Albert's scandal-plagued marriage as he 'pays wife £10m to do royal roles'

Prince Albert is one of the richest royals in the world with an estimated net worth of over $1billion but his romance with former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock has been rocky

Daily Mirror

Sir Jason Kenny backs North Staffordshire firm's bid to create world's fastest bikes

The decorated Olympic cyclist has been announced as one of the first investors in REAP bikes

Birmingham Post

Garside dedicates win to ailing mother

Olympic bronze medallist Harry Garside has defended his Australian lightweight title and dedicated the win to his mother who has cancer.

AAP

Ian Thorpe’s ex-boyfriend Ryan Channing dies suddenly in Bali

Ryan Channing, the former partner of retired Australian Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Ian Thorpe has died suddenly at the age of 32 with his family vowing to “seek answers”.

Evening Standard

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet to include Olympics, Asian Games medal winners in 9 departments

The State Cabinet gave its consent to hold the session of the U.P. Legislature from May 23

The Hindu

Gabby Thomas Is Conditioned for a Never-Ending Push to the Finish Line

The record-setting Olympic track star is on a speedy quest to break down barriers and make up for lost time.

Sports Illustrated

BAFTA viewers 'cringe' over Michelle Keegan and Tom Daley's joke about knitwear

Viewers said the joke 'went down like a lead balloon'

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Daily Record

Cycling legend Sir Bradley Wiggins rolls into the Stewartry

The five-times Olympic medallist is raising funds for Mr Porter Health in Mind – a scheme aimed at helping men lead happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.

Wales Online

The Games on ITV: Who is presenting the series, which celebs are taking part and how the show works

Holly Willoughby is stepping away from This Morning to present The Games alongside Top Gear's Freddie Flintoff, Alex Scott and Chris Kamara - with a guest appearance from Tyson Fury

The Times of India

Women's World C'ships: India boxers handed mixed draw; Lovlina to begin campaign on opening day

NEW DELHI: Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain will take on former champion Chen Nien-Chin in her opening bout as Indian pugilists were handed a mixed draw in the 12th edition of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships, starting in Istanbul on Monday.

ABC News

Former Opals captain Jenna O'Hea says Liz Cambage told Nigerian players to 'go back to your Third World country' during a training game

Former Opals captain Jenna O'Hea claims that Liz Cambage caused a confrontation with Nigerian basketballers in a training game before the Tokyo Olympics, telling them to "go back to your Third World country".

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Covid Curbs Push China Off Global Sporting Map

China's ambitions to be a global sporting hub took a heavy blow as the postponement of this year's Asian Games further isolated a country already cut off by its hardline zero-Covid strategy. The ruling Communist Party burnished its global image with an array of dazzling spectacles such as Beijing's 2008…

The Independent UK

Olympic champion Jonny Brownlee still searching for ‘the perfect triathlon’

Brownlee ‘completed’ his Olympic medal set in Tokyo lasst summer with gold in the mixed relay

The Times of India

TOPS approves extension of Neeraj Chopra's training in Turkey

NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India's Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) has approved Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra's proposal to provide financial assistance of Rs.5.5 lakh approximately for extension of his training camp in Turkey.

Sports Illustrated

Former Olympian, Sports Illustrated Writer Kenny Moore Dies at 78

Moore finished fourth in the marathon at the 1972 Olympics before embarking on a long and successful writing career.

The Guardian - UK

Reading’s Deanne Rose: ‘Representation and role models matter so much in sports’

The Olympic winner on growing up in a ‘Jamaican-Canadian household’, starting her own football camp for girls and the importance of friendship

Dublin Live

Katie Taylor's fairy-tale rise to greatness from childhood to 2016 disappointment

Perhaps the greatest sportsperson Ireland has ever produced, the 35-year-old has almost single-handedly carried women’s boxing for the guts of two decades

ABC News

Finding next Cathy Freeman, Ian Thorpe the mission of Ian Chesterman as Australian Olympic Committee president

Ian Chesterman has set himself an almost unreachable goal in his new job — to find superstar athletes the calibre of Cathy Freeman and Ian Thorpe, to spearhead Australia's Olympic hopes into the future.

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