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Wild to return to snowboarding training at Russian camp this month

  • Snowboard

American-born Russian double Olympic snowboarding gold medallist Vic Wild is set to return to training after missing the first camp for athletes in the parallel disciplines due to coronavirus restrictions.

Wild originally competed for the United States before the US Ski and Snowboard Association disbanded


Women's doubles top seeds out of US Open after Mladenovic ordered to quarantine

  • Tennis

Kristina Mladenovic’s US Open is over after being asked to quarantine in her hotel following "prolonged close contact" with French compatriot Benoît Paire, who tested positive for coronavirus.

Timea Babos were top seeds for the women’s doubles and due to face Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and United

States’ Alison Riske yesterday.The second-round match was cancelled after Mladenovic and Babos were

withdrawn from the event due to coronavirus restrictions, with Dabrowski and Riske advancing.The United

States Tennis Association (USTA) confirmed Mladenovic was not allowed to commute to Flushing Meadows


Liman bounce back from shaky start to win 3x3 World Tour Europe Masters

  • 3x3 basketball

Serbian club Liman bounced back from a shock opening-day defeat to win the Europe Masters - the final International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 World Tour event held in Debrecen in Hungary.

FIBA3x3) September 6, 2020Novi Sad's shaky form continued in the quarter-finals and they lost out to the United

States' NY Harlem, falling to a 21-20 defeat.Sakiai had to come through a qualifier to even make it


Second seeds Thiem and Kenin through to round four at US Open

  • Tennis

Second seed Dominic Thiem reached the fourth round of the US Open with a four-set win over Marin Cilic in New York City.

despatched Norwegian 30th seed Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.In the women's draw, second seed Sofia Kenin of the United

States overcame Tunisia's Ons Jabeur 7-6, 6-3 to set up a meeting with Belgium's 16th seed Elise



First Olympic gold medallist in butterfly dies aged 87

  • Swimming

A former world record holder who made history by becoming the first swimmer to win Olympic gold in butterfly has died.

and became Olympic champion at Melbourne in 1956, died aged 87.It was the only gold medal won by the United

States in men’s swimming at the Games in Australia and was in a stroke which was making its Olympic


Gauff aiming for Tokyo 2020 qualification after postponement boosted chances

  • Tennis

Tennis starlet Coco Gauff admits the postponement of the Olympic Games to 2021 has increased her chances of reaching Tokyo 2020 - something she says is "definitely the goal".

faced an uphill battle to secure one of the four places on offer.At that stage, the teenager was the United

States number five, but significantly behind fourth-ranked Madison Keys.Due to restrictions preventing


Luis and Taylor-Brown claim triathlon World Championship titles in Hamburg

  • Triathlon

France's Vincent Luis retained his title at the World Triathlon Series (WTS) event in Hamburg, where the winners were crowned champions in the one-off event.

specialist, South Africa's Richard Murray in seventh, coming in just behind the third Frenchman, Coninx.The United

States' Morgan Pearson, Alistair Bronwlee and Max Studer of Switzerland wrapped up the top 10.Jonathan


FIG competition set to resume with Szombathely World Cup in October

  • Gymnastics

International Gymnastics Federation (FIG)-sanctioned competition is set to return in October with a World Challenge Cup artistic gymnastics event in Hungary.

Artistic Gymnastics World Cup event of 2020, following legs in Melbourne in Australia, Milwaukee in the United

States and Baku in Azerbaijan.They took place before the pandemic shut down the gymnastics calendar.





Tsitsipas out of US Open as Djovokic remains unbeaten in 2020

  • Tennis

Greek number four seed Stefanos Tsitsipas is out of the US Open after a five-set defeat to Borna Coric of Croatia in round three, but Novak Djokovic advanced.

surrounding Alexander Zverev of Germany's third-round encounter with Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, with the United

States Tennis Association reportedly awaiting a decision from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on whether