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Motor racing: Renault furloughs ‘vast majority’ of F1 team to end of May
LONDON (Reuters) - Renault have furloughed most of their British-based Formula One race team until the end of May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with management also taking a pay cut, the French carmak...
Apr 10, 2020
Soccer: 1982 Brazil team reunite to help fight COVID-19
(Reuters) - Members of Brazil's 1982 World Cup squad have reunited to ask their compatriots to work together and donate money to help the country's overcrowded favelas avoid the worst ravages of the c...
Apr 10, 2020
FIFA chief warns against re-starting soccer too early
BERN (Reuters) - FIFA president Gianni Infantino has warned against re-starting soccer too early amid the coronavirus pandemic, telling FIFA's 211 member associations on Friday that such behaviour wou...
Apr 10, 2020
USA Swimming reschedules Olympic team trials
(Reuters) - USA Swimming said on Friday it had rescheduled its Olympic trials to June 13-20, 2021 and that they would remain in Omaha, Nebraska. The rescheduling of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to July 23 ...
Apr 10, 2020
Tokyo 2020 working toward new date, but virus clouds future
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Olympics organisers are focusing on their new Games start date in 2021, they stressed on Friday -- even if the coronavirus outbreak complicates preparations for...
Apr 10, 2020
Tennis: French federation launches 35-million euro support plan
PARIS (Reuters) - The French federation is launching a 35-million euro support plan for French tennis amid the coronavirus crisis, it said on Friday. Professional tennis has been suspended until mid-J...
Apr 10, 2020
Doping: Russian ban could harm Olympic movement during coronavirus crisis – minister
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said on Friday officials should not rule against the country in its appeal to overturn a doping ban because it would undermine the Olympic move...
Apr 10, 2020
Table tennis: Man vs. Machine, India’s Sathiyan training with robot
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Stuck indoors and without a training partner during India's COVID-19 lockdown, the country's top table tennis player G Sathiyan says he is staying sharp by practising with a robo...
Apr 10, 2020
On this day: Died April 11, 1977: Karen Krantzcke, Australian tennis player
(Reuters) - Karen Krantzcke played tennis at a time when Australia was routinely producing the world's best women's players, but her premature death at the age of 31 cemented her legacy far beyond any...
Apr 10, 2020
Bucs GM: QB Winston no bust
Jameis Winston was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft and the face of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Then Tom Brady became available. And the Buccaneers dove head over heels for Brady in free age...
Apr 09, 2020
