Euro 2020 champions Italy will be missing the flight to Qatar after being knocked out of the 2022 FIFA World Cup playoffs by North Macedonia. Aleksandar Trajkovski’s goal in the injury time in Palermo was enough for North Macedonia to get past four-time World Cup winners who also missed the World Cup in Russia. North Macedonia will now go to…
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Eight months after winning the European Championship and being feted as national heroes, Italy’s football team crashed back to earth, missing out on the World Cup for the second time running. Italy lost 1-0 at home to little-fancied North Macedonia who scored the winner in injury time on Thursday. North Macedonia stunned European Champions Italy in the dying minutes to…
View More European champions Italy out of World Cup after shock loss to North Macedonia
The 2022 Winter Olympics have ended in Beijing, and one country enjoyed a clear advantage in the final medal count. Medal history has been made in more ways than one during the Winter Games. Norway broke the record for the most gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games and, most recently, Elana Meyers Taylor earned her fifth Olympic medal, making…
View More 2022 WINTER OLYMPICS: NORWAY MAKES HISTORY ON BY WINNING 16 GOLD MEDALS
Australian Open champion Rafa Nadal captured his fourth title in Acapulco on Saturday, continuing his good run with a 6-4 6-4 triumph over Cameron Norrie in the final of the ATP 500 event. Nadal, who first won the title in 2005 and took it again in 2013 and 2020, stormed through the Acapulco draw without dropping a set, to claim…
View More RAFAEL NADAL DOWNS CAMERON NORRIE IN STRAIGHT SETS TO CLAIM FOURTH ACAPULCO TITLE
European lawmakers voted their opposition to breakaway competitions on Tuesday following the aborted Super League project that Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus are still backing. Some of Europe’s biggest football clubs wanted to break away from the Champions League and run their own competition called the Super League, but it quickly collapsed within 48 hours of launch in April following…
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Kane Williamson’s innings deserved the Cup. But a Mitchell Marsh-led Australian assault ensured that the New Zealand bowlers blew it up. Imperiously, the men in Green and Gold chased down the victory target of 173 at the cost of just two wickets with seven balls to spare. The Blackcaps suffered another final heartbreak, this time to a better team. New…
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The European Qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup resumed on 11 November. Seven teams have now won their groups to secure World Cup qualification: Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Serbia and Spain. How qualifying works The ten group winners qualify for the 2022 World Cup which runs from 21 November to 18 December in Qatar. For the play-offs from…
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The International Handball Federation has responded to widespread accusations of sexism by changing its rules around women’s uniforms to allow bike shorts and tank tops instead of bikini bottoms and crop tops. The sport’s global governing body has been the subject of international pressure since July, when the European Handball Federation made headlines for imposing a €1,500 fine on the…
View More Handball federation changes uniform rules after pressure over ‘sexist’ bikini rule
Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open title defence is in doubt after a government official said that it is unlikely that unvaccinated players will get visas to enter the country. “I don’t think an unvaccinated tennis player is going to get a visa to come into this country and if they did get a visa, they’d probably have to quarantine for a…
View More Djokovic could miss Australian Open due to anti-vaxx stance
Motor racing icon Danica Patrick is joining Sky Sports F1 for her home United States GP this weekend. Patrick, widely renowned as the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel racing, will be part of our bumper punditry team providing analysis on all the action from Austin, Texas. “I’m really excited,” said Patrick, one of motorsport’s greatest-ever female…
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