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By AFP
A wave of activism swept across the sporting world in 2020 as a new generation of increasingly confident athletes found their voices to champion social justice initiatives on an unprecedented scale.
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Russia's Olympic Committee on Thursday expressed its satisfaction with the Court of Arbitration for Sport's decision not to ban the country's athletes from participating in the Olympics.
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Acclaimed swimmer Emre Sak?? chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about competing for Team Iron in the second season of the International Swimming League (ISL).
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By excluding Russia from major international sporting competitions for the next two years over systematic doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport made a "very strong" move that validates the work of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), its director ...
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Brazilian swimmer Guilherme Guido chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about ISL Season 2 and competing for London Roar.
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Open water swimming champion Sandra Frimerman-Bergquist chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about her career in swimming.
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By AFP
Tokyo 2020 organisers said Tuesday they will press ahead with a nationwide, socially distanced torch relay -- 100 days before the Olympic flame begins its coronavirus-delayed journey around Japan.
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Dorina Szekeres, the General Manager of Team Iron, chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about ISL Season 2, and her plans for the future with Iron.
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New Zealand head coach Ian Foster said facing hosts France in a mouthwatering 2023 Rugby World Cup pool game will be "special", after Monday's draw in Paris.The sides met in the 1987 and 2011 finals, with the All Blacks winning on both occasions.
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Maimed in a horrific bombing, Colombian athlete Juan Jose Florian emerged from South America's longest conflict with three missing limbs and one clear goal -- to win gold at next year's Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
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American swimmer Erika Brown chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about competing for the Cali Condors in ISL Season 2 in Budapest, and she shared her takeaways from that experience.
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Belarusian swimmer Ilya Shymanovich chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about ISL Season 2, where he competed for the Energy Standard swimming team.
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Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir staged an unprecedented joint walk-out over alleged racism by a Champions League match official on Tuesday, prompting UEFA to suspend the game and launch an investigation.
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Olympic swimmer Molly Hannis chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about competing for the Cali Condors in ISL Season 2 as they were crowned champions of ISL Season 2.
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Olympic gold medalist and world champion swimmer Kelsi Dahlia chatted with Digital Journal about winning the International Swimming League (ISL) Season 2 with the Cali Condors.
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A women's university football match in China descended into farce and was eventually called off after players were told that they were not allowed to have dyed hair, state media said Tuesday.
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A member of Abu Dhabi's royal family on Monday bought half of Beitar Jerusalem, a top Israeli football team notorious for its anti-Arab fan base, the club said.
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Congratulations are in order for pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis. He was named "Male Athlete of the Year" at the 2020 World Athletics Awards.
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Under-pressure Zinedine Zidane said Real Madrid's 1-0 win at Sevilla on Saturday, their first in La Liga since October, was significant after a testing run of games.
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Polish swimmer Kasia Wasick chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about competing for the New York Breakers in ISL Season 2.
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Oleksii Novikov of Ukraine was crowned champion at the 2020 SBD "World's Strongest Man Championship" in Bradenton, Florida. He chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about his impressive win.
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Veteran swimming coach Jonty Skinner chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about being the Head Coach of the Cali Condors swimming team, which were crowned the winners of ISL Season 2.
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Asian swimmer Eddie Wang chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about winning ISL Season 2 with the Cali Condors.
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By AFP
The coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Olympics will cost at least an extra $2.4 billion, organisers said Friday, with the unprecedented postponement and a raft of pandemic health measures ballooning an already outsized budget.
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Three-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Katinka Hosszu, who is affectionately known as "The Iron Lady," chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about ISL Season 2 and her illustrious career in the sport.
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World-class Polish swimmer Kacper Majchrzak chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about being the Cali Condors winning ISL Season 2.
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By AFP
About 18 percent of tickets sold in Japan for next year's coronavirus-postponed Olympics will be refunded, Tokyo 2020 organisers said Thursday, with over 3.6 million seats still reserved domestically for the Games.
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By AFP
Basketball player Charles Tabet was once a national hero blocking shots for Lebanon, but a crumbling economy has forced him into a new life selling cars in Michigan.
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American swimmer Bowe Becker chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about being a part of the Cali Condors in ISL Season 2.
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By AFP
Athletes at the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo Olympics will face regular testing, restrictions on mingling and potential punishment for non-compliance with health rules, organisers said Wednesday as they outlined plans for holding the Games.
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By AFP
Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, will drive in Formula One for the first time with Haas next season, the team announced on Wednesday, leaving their new recruit "emotionally exploding" at the realisation of a dre...
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Marco Cosso, the strength and conditioning coach of Energy Standard, chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about his career and motivations.
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By AFP
Argentina rugby skipper Pablo Matera was stripped of the captaincy and suspended over "discriminatory and xenophobic" tweets on Tuesday.
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By AFP
French skipper Kevin Escoffier abandoned his PRB Yacht during the Vendee Globe on Monday and was in a life-raft awaiting rival skipper veteran Jean le Cam to pick him up.
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By AFP
Diego Maradona's personal doctor was on Sunday being investigated for involuntary manslaughter four days after the Argentina legend suffered a fatal heart attack, prosecutors in San Isidro near Buenos Aires reported.
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By AFP
The coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Olympics could cost $1.9 billion more than its original budget of $13 billion, a 15 percent increase, a report said Sunday.
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World-class Brazilian swimmer Nicholas Santos chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about being a part of ISL Season 2, where he competed for Team Iron. This year's competition was held at the Duna Arena in Hungary.
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By AFP
Diego Maradona's tormented private life, with its tangled relationships and paternity suits, suggests distributing his inheritance will be a complex task for lawyers bracing for claims from a slew of children -- those he recognized and those he didn't....
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James Gibson, MBE, the Head Coach and General Manager of Energy Standard chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about ISL Season 2, his takeaways from this season, and his plans for 2021 with the team.
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By AFP
Pakistan's cricket tour of New Zealand was in the balance Thursday after six squad members tested positive for Covid-19 and the team received a "final warning" for flouting quarantine rules.
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Brazilian swimmer Felipe Lima chatted with Digital Journal's Markos Papadatos about ISL Season 2 and swimming for the Energy Standard swimming team.
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