Japan Open 2024: Leo/Bagas Singkirkan Sabar/Reza
Leo Rolly Carnando/Bagas Maulana melangkah ke perempatfinal Japan Open 2024. Mereka mengalahkan sesama ganda Indonesia Sabar Karyaman Gutama/Moh Reza Pahlevi Isfahani dua gim langsung.
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BCB President Resigns After Political Tension, Ex Bangladesh Captain Named Replacement
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) named ex-skipper Faruque Ahmed Wednesday as president after the resignation of Nazmul Hassan, a close ally of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Cricket and politics go hand-in-hand in Bangladesh, and the sport has been hit by the turmoil that has wracked the country. Nazmul, who also served as sports minister during Hasina's 15-year autocratic rule, wrote to the BCB to resign, board chief executive officer Nizam Uddin Chowdhury told AFP.
Olympic champion Tola to tackle New York marathon title defence
NEW YORK : Ethiopian Tamirat Tola will defend his title at the New York City Marathon weeks after picking up gold in Paris, hoping to become only the second athlete to win the Olympic title and the five-borough major in the same year.
WHO declares Africa's mpox outbreak a global health emergency as new strain spreads
The mpox outbreak ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is now a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dodda Ganesh Appointed Kenyan Cricket Team's Head Coach
Former Indian all-rounder Dodda Ganesh has been appointed head coach of Kenya's men's cricket team ahead of the Africa Qualifiers for the 2026 T20 World Cup. Ganesh, 51, who played four Tests and an ODI without much success but did alright in first-class cricket scoring over 2000 runs and taking 365 wickets for Karnataka, will have the unenviable task of bringing back the glory days of Kenyan cricket when it competed in five World Cups between 1996 and 2011. The best-ever finish of the Associate Member was in 2003 when it reached the semifinals in South Africa with an Indian head coach in Sandeep Patil.
How payment of $6,000 ‘training grants’ to foreign-based athletes rocked Nigeria’s camp
Factors that may have inhibited the country’s performance at the just-concluded Paris 2024 Olympics are beginning to emerge with an official of Team Nigeria hinting The Guardian that the payment of $6,000 “training grants to athletes in the middle of the Games” was one of them.
Mpox declared public health emergency in Africa as WHO warns 'the time to act is now'
Mpox has been declared a public health emergency in Africa, days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) said 'the time to act is now'.
Watch: Bhutanese Runner Finishes Marathon 1.5 Hours After Winner, Gets Loudest Cheer
Kinzang Lhamo, a marathon-runner from Bhutan, received the loudest cheers from the Paris crowd as she crossed the line in the women's marathon event at the Paris Olympics 2024. But she wasn't the winner. Nor the runner-up. Not even the bronze medalist. In fact, the 26-year-old Lhamo finished last. Not just by a small margin either; Lhamo finished nearly an hour and a half after marathon winner Sifan Hassan had crossed the line. Netherlands' Sifan Hassan had smashed the Olympic women's marathon record with a time of 2 hours 22 minutes 55 seconds. But that wasn't enough to get the biggest applause of the day.