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A total of 15 nations will take part in two-rider teams for 2024 Olympic Games glory in the men’s Madison. The competition takes place at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, located 35km from Paris near venues hosting mountain biking, BMX racing, equestrian and golf.While the men’s Madison has been contested for more than a century, taking its name from the New York City venue at which the discipline originated, Madison Square Garden, the event did not make its first appearance in the Olympic Games until 2000 in Sydney. After three Olympics, it was dropped, then reinstated at the 2020 Tokyo Games when…

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A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Ten months after telling teammates he was set to call time on his international career, Marika Koroibete is set to feature in the Wallabies’ Rugby Championship campaign.The 32-year-old, two-time John Eales Medallist told teammate Pone Fa’amausili following last year’s final World Cup pool match against Portugal that his time was up in the Wallabies jersey.Yet, it always appeared that his “international retirement” was premature with his wife, Emma, asking former Wallabies manager Chris Webb what the 2024 Test campaign looked like before they had…

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by Joseph Santoliquito |  PHILADELPHIA, PA — Andy Cruz walks around Bozy Ennis’ North Philadelphia basement gym with a mischievous grin, as if to imply the former Cuban Olympian knows something you do not know. Cruz will be fighting Mexican Antonio Moran this Saturday in a 10-round lightweight fight on the Terence Crawford-Israil Madrimov undercard from the BMO Stadium, in Los Angeles. Cruz (3-0, 1 knockout) has grand plans and this fight against the experienced Moran (30-6-1, 21 KOs) is another step in the process. Cruz, the Cuban 2020 Olympic lightweight gold medalist who defeated The Ring’s 2022 Prospect of the…

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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 31, 2024, 03:00 PM ETCloseSenior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of GeorgiaMost of the world’s best golfers spent the past four months playing in the four most famous tournaments in the world — the Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open and The Open.In August, many of them will compete in the FedEx Cup playoffs on the PGA Tour, which awards a $25 million bonus to the winner.So where does an Olympic gold medal rank against a coveted green jacket that comes with winning the Masters or a…

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Last week the NBA confirmed that they rejected a last offer from Warner Bros. Discovery to match Amazon’s $1.8 billion per year bid to transmit the league’s matches starting with the 2025/26 campaign. This decision unavoidably set up a showdown between both the association and WBD, who is the parent company of both TNT and CNN, who believe they have the right to match an offer. This is why Charles Barkley has decided to condemn the NBA’s rejection to continue broadcasting professional basketball games for the upcoming decade. According to the Inside the NBA host, the league is prioritizing “money…

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After seeing Leon Edwards come up short against Belal Muhammad, coach Dave Lovell would like to see his fighter bounce back against rising Irish contender Ian Machado Garry. Edwards’ uninspiring performance against ‘Remember The Name’ at UFC 304 cost him the win and the welterweight world title. Considering how decisively things played out, ‘Rocky’ and his team recognize that an immediate rematch is a pretty tall ask. Instead, Edwards’ longtime coach believes the ex-champ can get right back into the mix with a win over the division’s No. 7 ranked contender. “I’d like to see Leon fight Ian Garry,” Lovell…

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2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES Defending silver medalist Ryan Murphy of the US missed the final of the men’s 200 backstroke after posting a 1:56.62 in semifinals for 10th. Murphy already won silver in the 100 backstroke this week. It took a 1:56.52 to make tomorrow night’s final as Spain’s Hugo Gonzalez earned the last spot in finals with the 8th fastest time of the night. Murphy looked to be in position to make the final as he pushed his first-25 of the last 50 but he was unable to hold on and the field closed on him as he…

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