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Valencia's sponsors Puma offer support to Vinicius Jr after racism row
Valencia's sponsors Puma offered their support for Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr after he was racially abused during their LaLiga match in Spain on Sunday.
French Open: Experience key for 'machine' Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz will be 'totally ready' - Alex Corretja
Novak Djokovic’s «champion» mentality and experience can drive him to contend for a third French Open title, reckons Alex Corretja. Djokovic has won Roland-Garros twice and is one of the leading contenders to lift the trophy following the withdrawal of 14-time champion Rafael Nadal. Ad Djokovic has not had the best clay preparation, losing early in Monte Carlo and Bosnia-Herzegovina before withdrawing from Madrid and then making the quarter-finals in Rome.
Simona Halep insists doping hearing delay infringes her rights
Former world number one Simona Halep has accused the International Tennis Integrity Agency of seeking to further delay her independent tribunal doping hearing and said she is being denied her right to be heard.
Casemiro's 'role' in Neymar talks and more Manchester United transfer rumours
Casemiro is trying to help broker a deal for Manchester United to sign Neymar, according to reports.
Why Bakhmut matters: As Russia claims victory, Ukraine insists it has momentum
Kyiv has long claimed the eastern Donbas city merely represented a symbolic trophy. But it also decided to duke it out. We ask why Bakhmut matters and what's next after Volodymyr Zelensky's barnstorming tours – first of European capitals, then going all the way to the G7 summit in Japan lobbying for yet more support as things gets heated back home.
Spanish police detain four over Vinicius Jr effigy hung from bridge
MADRID: Spanish police detained four men on Tuesday (May 23) in connection with an incident in which an effigy representing Brazilian soccer star Vinicius Jr was hung from a bridge in January, a day after a senior official said Spanish football had a racism problem.
Halep says ITIA trying to delay her doping hearing further
Former world number one Simona Halep has accused the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) of seeking to further delay her independent tribunal doping hearing and said she is being denied her right to be heard.