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The home of English rugby will be renamed the Allianz Stadium next month Mail Sport revealed the deal will be worth around £100m to English rugby RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney has defended the controversial decisionBy Alex Bywater Published: 07:47 EDT, 6 August 2024 | Updated: 07:47 EDT, 6 August 2024 RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney has defended the controversial decision to rename Twickenham to Allianz Stadium and insisted it was not one the governing body took lightly.Mail Sport revealed the deal will be worth £100million to English rugby with the insurance giants set to invest £10m-a-year over the course of the…
Watch highlights as John Peers and Rinky Hijikata beat Andy and Jamie Murray in straights ets in the men’s doubles at Wimbledon.
BAKHODIR Jalolov is now a two-time Olympic gold medallist after beating Ayoub Ghadfa to claim super-heavyweight gold. The big Uzbek toiled hard to keep the younger man at bay but resisted the temptation to plant his feet and score a KO, instead opting to step off and secure history. The judges’ decision was unanimous. Currently 14-0 as a professional, with 14 knockouts, Jalolov has switched comfortably back to the amateur circuit for another crack at Olympic glory. Jalolov also won gold at the Tokyo Games, beating Frazer Clarke and Richard Torrez en route to success. He stepped straight out on…
Aug 10, 2024, 12:03 PM ETSAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — One gold short of the Olympic medal collection, one win away from the LPGA Hall of Fame, Lydia Ko pondered what it would be like to knock out both at the same time and said when she arrived, “It would be a hell of a way to do it.”What the 27-year-old Kiwi didn’t share was her decision that the Paris Games would be her last Olympics. The goal Saturday in the women’s golf competition was never more clear.”I knew the next 18 holes were going to be some of the most important…
Dennis Schroder came to the Brooklyn Nets at the trade deadline last season. Schroder has one season left on his contract, but hopes his time in Brooklyn continues long past that. “I want to be in Brooklyn long-term. Hopefully that works out,” Schroder said in an interview with Andscape. “I want to be a veteran who shows the young people the way and how we should play and how we play as a team. I understand that the NBA is always more individual, but I want to make one team like we had in Atlanta where it was about just…
MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 95 results for the Tybura vs. Spivac 2 fight card and much more from the UFC APEX on Saturday night. In the main event, Marcin Tybura and Serghei Spivac square off in a heavyweight contest. Both fighters have won three of their past four fights. Tybura and Spivac fought before at UFC Norfolk on Feb. 29, 2020. On that date, Tybura beat Spivac via unanimous decision (30-27 x2, 29-28). Damon Jackson and Chepe Mariscal clash in a featherweight contest in the co-main event. Heavyweights headline in Las Vegas! Tybura faces Spivac – LIVE HERE -…
Bobby Finke of the US was awarded a $50,000 USD bonus from Shannon Sharpe on Nightcap on Friday. Finke broke the World Record in the men’s 1500 freestyle on the final day of swimming in Paris, swimming to a 14:30.67. Sharpe hosted Finke on his podcast and surprised Finke at the end of it with a check. He showed Finke the check through the camera to show Finke how proud he and co-host Chad Johnson were of him. Finke eventually saw the writing on the check and responded with a shocked “oh god…oh my god.” Johnson proposed a race for…
The contrast could not have been more obvious between the experienced champions and the young upstarts after the men’s Madison in the Paris Olympics. While Elia Viviani and Simone Consonni of Italy framed their silver amid multiple Olympic medals, and Michael Mørkøv compared his new bronze medal to a dream gold medal in the Madison in Tokyo, surprise gold medalist Rui Oliveira spontaneously dropped f-bombs in his disbelief that his first pro win as a cyclist was gold at the Olympics.”I’ve no words. This whole thing is a dream,” an astonished Oliveira said after the race. “I don’t think I’m living…
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Chelsea captain Reece James suffered an injury setback in training this week after picking up another hamstring injury according to The Athletic. James has been plagued by injuries over the past few seasons and was limited to just 11 appearances in all competitions last season as he missed almost five months with a hamstring injury which he underwent surgery on.The 24-year-old was seemingly making good progress as he started all five of Chelsea’s games on tour, but he will now miss Sunday’s game against Inter Milan at Stamford Bridge.Reece James suffers injury setbackThe Athletic have reported that James felt some “discomfort”…