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Motor racing: Eight titles ‘easy’ for Hamilton, says four timer Prost
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Four times Formula One world champion Alain Prost says he can see Lewis Hamilton stretching his own title tally to an easy eight, judging from the first two races of...
Jul 15, 2020
WNBA’s Delle Donne ‘hurt’ after league denies opt-out request
By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - Reigning WNBA Most Valuable Player Elena Delle Donne said on Wednesday she must decide whether to risk her life playing basketball amid the COVID-19 outbreak or forfeit her...
Jul 15, 2020
Lowry missing St. George’s ahead of Memorial Tournament
By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - Reigning British Open champion Shane Lowry is excited to be competing in the Memorial Tournament this week in Dublin, Ohio but it is not lost on the Irishman where he would...
Jul 15, 2020
IOC remains ‘fully committed’ to staging Olympics in 2021
By Brian Homewood BERN (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) remains fully committed to staging the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 and is considering multiple scenarios for them to tak...
Jul 15, 2020
The 2022 Youth Olympic Games to be postponed to 2026: IOC
(Reuters) - The 2022 Youth Olympic Games, due to be held in Senegal, are set to be postponed for four years, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday. Bach said th...
Jul 15, 2020
Four games a day confirmed for 2022 World Cup in Qatar
By Simon Evans (Reuters) - World Cup fans will be able to watch an unprecedented four games a day on television, spread out over 11 hours, during the group stage of the Qatar 2022 tournament after the...
Jul 15, 2020
Statistics for the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix
(Reuters) - Some statistics for Sunday's Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix at the Hungaroring, the third race of the 2020 season: Lap distance: 4.381km. Total distance: 306.630km (70 laps) 2019 pole: M...
Jul 15, 2020
Tokyo Olympics at risk if coronavirus mutates, gets stronger: Japan adviser
By Linda Sieg and Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo Olympics may have to be postponed again if the novel coronavirus mutates into a stronger pathogen, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a prominent Japanese gove...
Jul 15, 2020
Golf: Asian Tour cancels Taiwan Masters due to COVID-19
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The Asian Tour said on Wednesday September's Taiwan Masters has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The decision to cancel Taiwan Masters was based on health and saf...
Jul 15, 2020
Athletics: Even in retirement Eaton looks to push performance boundaries
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Two-time Olympic decathlon gold medallist Ashton Eaton has turned to science and engineering for his post-athletic career but the American former world record holder ...
Jul 15, 2020
