La Liga, NWFL deepen partnership to improve female football in Nigeria
The Spanish La Liga has deepened its partnership with the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) in a bid to take female football in the country to the greatest of heights.
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India Football Coach Igor Stimac Not Ready To Predict Asian Games Outcome
Indian football head coach Igor Stimac is not sure where the country would finish in the Hangzhou Asian Games next month given the U-23 format of the quadrennial showpiece and with very little known about the opposing teams. Asked what finish at the Asian Games would satisfy him, Stimac said on Monday that while India does have a strong team, the fact that it is the only side having "not played a single game with the under-23s in the last two years" made predicting the outcome difficult.
Sports Authority Of India Wants Bajrang Punia To Attend World Wrestling Championships Trials Or Give Fitness Certificate
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) wants Olympic-medallist wrestler Bajrang Punia to attend the trials for the World championships or provide fitness certificate if he wants exemption from this week's exercise in Patiala. Punia is planning to skip the trials for the World Championships on August 25 and 26 and instead wants to train at a foreign location to prepare for the Asian Games in Hangzhou beginning September 23. Bajrang, one of six wrestlers to sit in protest at the Jantar Mantar against outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, and Commonwealth Games gold-medal winner Deepak Punia (86khg) are not keen to compete in the World Championships in Belgrade from September 16, and instead want to undergo long training stints to prepare of the Asian Games.
College football preseason 2023 Power Rankings - ESPN
The first college football Power Rankings are here and who else but the two-time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs reign supreme.
Ukraine and Russia tussle for attention and influence at BRICS summit
As the BRICS summit gets underway in Johannesburg this week, bringing together the main players of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa with dozens of other countries outside the 'global West', Russia and Ukraine are looking at the event as a way to cement international relationships as they compete for influence.
ISSF World Championships 2023: India's Akhil Shreoran Clinches 50m Rifle 3 Positions Bronze, Secures Olympics 2024 Quota
Shooter Akhil Sheoran clinched a bronze medal in the men's 50 m rifle 3 positions event at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship being held in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday and also secured a 2024 Paris Olympics quota for the country in the process. As per the Olympics.com, Akhil was sixth in the medal round after the kneeling series but made a huge comeback during the prone and standing sections to tally a score of 450 and got the podium position. Austria's Alexander Schmirl bagged the gold with 462.6 while the Czech Republic's Petr Nymbursky clinched the silver, scoring 459.2.
'Scenes of absolute horror': Saudi border guards guilty of mass killings of migrants, says HRW
“I saw people killed in a way I have never imagined.” Last February, 14-year-old Hamdiya was trying to cross the Yemen-Saudi border with a group of 60 people when she heard the gunfire.
U.S., Kenya, others expected in Lagos this week for youth championship
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