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Hachimura and Susaki named Japanese flagbearers for Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony

  • Tokyo 2020

Basketball player Rui Hachimura and wrestler Yui Susaki have been announced as Japan’s flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo.

consecutive All-Japan High School tournaments in Meisei High School in Sendai, before travelling to the United

States to represent Gonzaga University in the NCAA.He was awarded the Julius Erving Award for the best




South Africans win men's and women's titles at ICF Ocean Racing World Championships

  • Canoeing

South Africa earned a golden double at the International Canoe Federation's Ocean Racing World Championships in Lanzarote thanks to Michelle Burn and Nicolas Notten.

closer to shore than the than the rest of the women’s field.She emerged ahead of Ana Swetish of the United

States and Spain’s home paddler Judit Verges Xifra.Burn said just getting to Spain for the race was



Bol and Dos Santos shine over 400m hurdles at Stockholm Diamond League as Duplantis settles for win

  • Athletics

Femke Bol of The Netherlands became the latest athlete to produce a startling effort in the 400 metres hurdles in recent days as she won at the Diamond League event in Stockholm in 52.38sec, putting her fourth on the all-time list.

performance comes less than a week after Sydney McLaughlin set a world record of 51.90 in winning at the United

States Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon and just three days after Norway's Karsten Warholm bettered

personal best of 1min 56.28sec from Natoya Goule of Jamaica, who clocked 1:56.44, and Kate Grace of the United

States, winner in Oslo after missing out at the US Olympic trials, who improved her personal best to


The view from Lausanne - Kremlev sets out vision of Brave New World for AIBA

  • The Big Read

Bidden this past week to the 19th century splendour of Lausanne’s Beau-Rivage Palace, dutifully masked members of the international press - and other virtual participants - witnessed the President of the International Boxing Federation (AIBA), Umar Kremlev, make his case for a Brave New World.

The boxing family has invested into me and so we are united and working on these commitments.Roy Jones

Bach said that the appointment as interim President of Gafur Rakhimov, who since 2012 had been on the United

States Treasury sanctions list of those suspected of having criminal links, was among "serious problems


Cuba forced to withdraw from Gold Cup qualifiers due to COVID-19 restrictions

  • Football

Cuba's hopes of competing at the 2021 Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Gold Cup have been dashed after the team's match against French Guiana was cancelled due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

The Cuban team had also faced visa challenges for getting into the United States, where qualification


Garnbret adds lead to boulder gold at IFSC World Cup in Villars

  • Sport Climbing

Janja Garnbret’s phenomenal run of form continued at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup in Villars tonight as she added the lead gold medal to two won in Innsbruck last week.

their routes, but Garnbret got the gold by dint of her semi-final victory.Bronze was claimed by the United

States' Natalia Grossman.Garnbret's focus now turns to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where the combined discipline

International Federation of Sport Climbing (@ifsclimbing) July 3, 2021Earlier in the evening Sean Bailey of the United

States had won the men’s lead event and his compatriot Colin Duffy was third.Silver went to Germany’





Duplantis next up for home heroics as Diamond League moves on to Stockholm

  • Athletics

Three days after local hero Karsten Warholm wowed Oslo’s Bislett Stadium with a world 400 metres hurdles record, another favoured son, Mondo Duplantis, will be the centre of attention tomorrow as the Wanda Diamond League moves on to Stockholm.

6.01m - his seventh 6.00m-plus win of the season - to beat double world champion Sam Kendricks of the United

States and Renaud Lavillenie, the Frenchman whose world record he bettered last season.All three will