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AC Milan have their Serie A rivals snapping at their heels ahead of their title defence, with the big boys bolstering their squads over an eventful summer which has left the league with no clear Scudetto favourite. Stefano Pioli's side kick off the new season against Udinese at the San Siro on Saturday as teams gear up for a 15-match sprint between now and the World Cup in Qatar.
While the threat of COVID-19 still lingers two years on from the start of the pandemic and the outbreak of monkeypox is far from being contained, a new virus is looming over the horizon.
Despite the 2 bronze in Chess Olympiad, there are issues that need to be addressed to take the game to the next level in India. TOI takes a look...With a bronze medal in each section, the Chess Olympiad for first-time hosts India was a success. But even the medals warrant some stock-taking and post mortem. In a somewhat justified euphoria following the big festival, Indian chess would do well in processing the underlying messages. Hosting the Olympiad is not particularly in demand due to the costs involved. The USA and China have won gold medals without ever hosting the event. And when India play in Budapest 2024, they will have just one team in each section and won't have a cushion of three. More than Rs 90 crore was committed by the Tamil Nadu government for the biennial extravaganza. On the other hand, India still can't don't have an elite classical round-robin event or a strong GM norm tournament for home-grown players in the regular chess calendar. Accepting a higher number of entries for more corpus through entry fees, playing two or more rounds in a day to save an extra day's rent for the playing hall, absence of playing tiebreak, lack of dynamic tournament format and huge base of lower rated players (below Elo 2200) are realities that Indian chess is grappling with.
MILAN: AC Milan have their Serie A rivals snapping at their heels ahead of their title defense, with the big boys bolstering their squads over an eventful summer which has left the league with no clear Scudetto favorite.
:American Coco Gauff outlasted Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina 6-4 6-7(8) 7-6(3) in a marathon second round clash at the Canadian Open on Wednesday, while world number one Iga Swiatek sailed past Australian Ajla Tomljanovic 6-1 6-2.
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Great Britain's Olympic alpine skiers have launched an appeal for help after their funding was cut by UK Sport. GB Snowsport confirmed last week that the body had deemed the alpine, cross-country and para-Nordic programmes to no longer be eligible for «World Class Programme» funding amid a wider reduction ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Ad Team GB entered four alpine skiers at Beijing 2022, including Dave Ryding, who was one of the team's flag-bearers at the opening ceremony in China and in January became Britain's first winner of a World Cup race with a stunning victory in Kitzbuhel.
Ding Junhui showed his class as he finished with a brilliant 128 break to book his place in the British Open last 64 with a 4-2 win over Oliver Lines in Wigan. The 35-year-old Chinese icon has not won a ranking title since his 2019 success at the UK Championship, but certainly looked to be in the mood at the Robin Park Leisure Centre on Wednesday afternoon. Ad A break of 51 in the opening frame helped him establish a 2-0 lead before world No.