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Doping: CAS to hear appeal against Russia’s Olympic ban in November
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian anti-doping agency's (RUSADA) appeal against the country's four-year ban from the Olympics and other major sporting events will be heard in early November, the Lausanne-...
Jun 02, 2020
Motorcycling: Nine-times world champion Ubbiali dead at 90
(Reuters) - Nine-times motorcycling world champion Carlo Ubbiali, who raced in the first world championship in 1949 and later dominated the 125 and 250cc categories, has died aged 90, Italian media re...
Jun 02, 2020
‘I wanna hear you’: Sammy says ICC must speak out against social injustice
(Reuters) - Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy has urged cricket's global governing body and its member nations to speak out against social injustice following the death of an African-American ma...
Jun 02, 2020
Reaction to revised Formula One calendar
LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One announced on Tuesday it would start its delayed season in Austria on July 5 with eight races in Europe over the space of 10 weeks. It will be the first time Austria's Re...
Jun 02, 2020
FIFA asks leagues to use ‘common sense’ as sport protests over George Floyd death
BERN (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA has asked competition organisers to use "common sense" with players who show messages of protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black ma...
Jun 02, 2020
Silverstone, Austria to host two races each on revised F1 calendar
LONDON (Reuters) - Austria's Red Bull Ring and Britain's Silverstone circuit will each host two grands prix without spectators on an initial eight race Formula One calendar published on Tuesday. Austr...
Jun 02, 2020
British Olympic hopeful, aged 11, fractures skull
(Reuters) - Eleven-year-old skateboarder Sky Brown, who is hoping to become Britain's youngest Olympian next year, fractured her skull and broke bones in her left hand after falling from a ramp during...
Jun 02, 2020
Celtics’ Poirier joins Floyd protests with team mates
PARIS (Reuters) - Celtics center Vincent Poirier says he took part in a protest with NBA team mates Marcus Smart and Enes Kanter in Boston on Sunday over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black ...
Jun 02, 2020
Japanese baseball returns to field after COVID-19 delay
By Jack Tarrant YOKOHAMA (Reuters) - Japan's top baseball players got their first taste of competitive action on Tuesday, more than 10 weeks after the scheduled start of the season, as warm-up matches...
Jun 02, 2020
On this day… June 3
(Reuters) - ON THIS DAY -- JUNE 3 June 3, 1992 BASKETBALL - Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan shrugs after sinking a record sixth three-pointer during the first half of the first game of the NBA Finals ag...
Jun 02, 2020
