Russia basketball barred from Olympics due to invasion of Ukraine, FIBA says
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Chelsea's US owners suffer debut season flop despite huge outlay
LONDON : Chelsea's American owners saw their last hope of any glory in their first season crumble on Tuesday when the club they bought in a deal worth 4.25 billion pounds ($5.28 billion) last year were knocked out of the Champions League by Real Madrid.
Russia says talks with UEFA about reinstatement are tough -agencies
Russia is talking to European soccer's governing body UEFA about lifting a ban imposed after the invasion of Ukraine but the negotiations are tough, domestic news agencies cited a top Russian Football Union (RFU) official as saying on Tuesday.
Russian national basketball team barred from 2024 Paris Olympics
Russia has been excluded from qualification for the men's Olympic basketball tournament in Paris next year, basketball's international governing body FIBA said Tuesday.
Vice-president IFC: We are trying to really escalate, scale up our presence, our investments in Ukraine
Exclusive interview with Alfonso Garcia Mora, IFC’s Vice President for Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency
Could Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin replace Vladimir Putin as Russia's next president?
Yevgeny Prigozhin knows how to cause a stir.
Sam Ryder, Kalush Orchestra and Sonia to perform at Eurovision Grand Final
Sam Ryder and Kalush Orchestra are among the stars performing at the Eurovision Grand Final in Liverpool next month.
Ukrainian Club Shakhtar Reaches Out To Wounded Soldiers And War Orphans
Shakhtar Donetsk's objectives used to be confined to silverware but now the storied Ukrainian football club have loftier aims, financing hospital care abroad for wounded soldiers and finding new homes for orphans. The club -- whose lifting of the 2009 UEFA Cup makes it one of only two Ukrainian teams to win a European club competition -- has through its foundation Shakhtar Social spared no expense since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. They have paid 100,000 euros ($110,000) each for five severely wounded soldiers to be sent for medical treatment in hospitals in Israel, the United States and Spain.