Agnelli says leaving Juventus ‘not easy’, defends club
European Club Association (ECA) Chairman Andrea Agnelli attends a news conference after the 23rd ECA General Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Shane Sweetnam third at lucrative Grand Prix in Geneva
Shane Sweetnam completed an impressive run of results at Geneva’s five-star show, culminating in a third-place finish on James Kann Cruz in Sunday's €1.2 Million Rolex Grand Prix – part of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping.
The Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève: Making time stand still
It’s once again high time that world’s most prestigious luxury companies gather to present their best watches in the hope of nabbing one of the coveted prizes at the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix (Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève – GPHG).
Schumacher's title-winning 2003 Ferrari fetches record $13 million at auction
The Ferrari in which Formula One legend Michael Schumacher won the 2003 World Championship sold for more than $13 million at auction in Geneva on Wednesday.
Michael Schumacher's winning Ferrari up for auction in Geneva
GENEVA: The Ferrari driven to five race victories by Michael Schumacher during his World Championship-winning 2003 Formula 1 season is being auctioned next week in Geneva, auction house Sotheby's said on Friday.
Former No. 1 Halep suspended for positive doping test
Former No. 1-ranked player Simona Halep was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency after failing a drug test during the U.S. Open last month.
FIFA open to compensation fund for migrant workers in Qatar
GENEVA: FIFA wants to help workers in Qatar get compensation for being injured while building projects for the World Cup, one of the soccer body’s top officials told European lawmakers on Thursday. Soccer federations in Europe have supported calls for a fund since Amnesty International said FIFA should contribute $440 million toward reparations — matching the total prize money FIFA will pay to the 32 national teams playing in Qatar next month.
IOC’s Bach eyes return to sports for anti-war Russians
GENEVA: Russian athletes who do not endorse their country’s war in Ukraine could be accepted back into international sports, IOC president Thomas Bach said in an interview published Friday. “It’s about having athletes with a Russian passport who do not support the war back in competition,” Bach told Italian daily Corriere della Sera, adding, “We have to think about the future.” Most sports followed International Olympic Committee advice in February and banned Russian team and athletes from their events within days of the country’s military invasion of Ukraine. With Russians starting to miss events that feed into qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics, an exile extending into next year could effectively become a wider ban from those Games.