The Libyan Football Federation (LFF) plans to take legal action to reverse the sanctions imposed after their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Nigeria was cancelled. The match, scheduled for October 15, was called off when Nigeria's Super Eagles boycotted the game due to their flight being diverted, leaving the team stranded overnight a...
A series of Ethiopian athletes clinched medals in this year's Berlin marathon on Sunday, including Milkesa Mengesha, who won the men's race with a time of just over 2 hours 3 minutes - a new personal best; He was among a series of Ethiopian athletes who dominated the podium place in the German capital, along with Haymanot Alew. Alew narrowly ...
Afghanistan's cricketers have earned a historic first one-day international (ODI) victory over South Africa, romping to a comfortable six-wicket triumph in the first of a three-match series on Wednesday in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates. South Africa were bundled out for 106 in 33.3 overs, having slumped to 36-7 in the 10th over, leaving A...
Afghanistan's cricketers have sealed a historic one-day international series win against South Africa with a 117-run victory in the second match in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on Friday. Rahmanullah Gurbaz chalked up a superb 105 as Afghanistan made 311-4, having won the toss. It was the seventh century in the 22-year-old's ODI career, mak...
Nigeria hired German coach Bruno Labbadia on Tuesday to lead the men's national soccer team in a bid to get its flagging World Cup qualifying campaign back on track. "The appointment is with immediate effect," said Mohammed Sanusi, the general secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation. The 58-year-old Labbadia has been out of work since Ap...
Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif has been welcomed as a hero in her home town. The football-obsessed North African country has given Khelif the celebrity treatment since she returned to Algiers earlier this week. Nowhere has this been more true than Tiaret, the largely rural region in central Algeria where she grew up and learned to b...
Kenya tops the African medal count with 11 medals, which includes 4 gold. Algeria is in second place with 2 gold medals, and South Africa is third with 1 gold medal. Ethiopia completes the top four, also having 1 gold medal but with fewer silver medals. The Paris Olympics have come to an end and for the fourth straight time, the United States...
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal Friday at the Paris Olympics, emerging a champion from a tumultuous run at the Games where she endured intense scrutiny in the ring and online abuse from around the world over misconceptions about her womanhood. Khelif beat Yang Liu of China 5:0 in the final of the women's welterweight division...
Kenyan long-distance runner Benson Kipruto said he will run the Olympic marathon in Paris in honour of Kelvin Kiptum. The 24-year-old world marathon record holder and his Rwandan coach died in a car accident in February. Kiptum's death came just months after he set a men's world record of 2 hours and 35 seconds in the Chicago Marathon, and wa...
Ezinna Kalu scored 21 points as Nigeria made Olympic history by becoming the first African team, male or female, to reach the Olympic quarterfinals in basketball when it beat Canada 79-70 on Sunday. The Nigerians (2-1) now wait to learn their opponent. They already have doubled the number of wins in pool play for a country that came to France...
Cape Verde boxer David De Pina clinched his island nation's first Olympic medal with a quarterfinal victory Friday in the boxing tournament at the Paris Games. Cape Verde, a nation of about 600,000 people on 10 isles more than 300 miles west of continental Africa, had never taken home a medal in its previous seven appearances in the Olympics....
South African swimmer Tatjana Smith said she has no regrets about retiring after having won one gold and one silver medal in Paris, and thus becoming the most decorated Olympian of her country. Smith won gold in the 100-metre breastroke and silver in the 200-metre breastroke events in Paris. Three years ago in Tokyo, she won medals in both ra...
Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda took the lead with a little more than a lap left in a masterpiece of a 10,000-meter final Friday to win in an Olympic-record 26 minutes, 43.14 seconds in front of a roaring crowd on an electric opening night for track at the Stade de France. The world-record holder raced in the middle of a strung-out pack for most o...
Twenty-nine-year old equestrian, Noor Slaoui, is gearing up for the Olympic Games which get underway in Paris next Friday. She is about to become the first Moroccan female rider ever to take part in the Eventing discipline. This is when a single horse and rider compete against others in dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. She is also t...
Swimming sensation Farida Osman's dream of representing Egypt in her fourth Olympics have been dashed by the narrowest of margins. The 6-time All-Africa gold medallist failed to reach the qualification standard of 24.70 seconds in the 50-metre freestyle - by a mere two-hundredths of a second. Also a 3-time world championship bronze medalist, Osman ...
Южноафриканский чемпион мира по прыжкам в высоту Жак Фрайтаг был найден мертвым. Об этом 3 июля сообщили в Международной ассоциации легкоатлетической федерации. «Согласно новостным сообщениям из Южной Африки, Фрайтаг пропал без вести за две недели до того, как его тело было обнаружено с множественными огнестрельными ранениями. Полиция рассматривает...
Russia Hosts Multi-National Event Amidst Olympic Exclusion Amidst international sporting sanctions, Russia defied exclusion from the Olympics by hosting the BRICS Games 2024 in Kazan. This multi-national sporting event not only highlighted athletic prowess but also underscored global cooperation among diverse nations, despite limited coverage...
On June 29, 2024, in an electrifying climax to the T20 World Cup, India emerged victorious over South Africa by a razor-thin margin of seven runs. The final, held at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, witnessed a spectacular display of cricketing prowess from both teams, culminating in a memorable showdown.India set a competitive total of 176...
In an explosion of gold and silver confetti, Real Madrid held aloft the Champions League trophy for a record-extending 15th time on Saturday. The most familiar sight in European club soccer's greatest competition felt as fresh as ever after a 2-0 win against Borussia Dortmund in the final at Wembley Stadium. "Getting used to it? Never," said ...
Egyptian giants Al Ahly have won their 12th CAF Champions League title. They beat Tunisia's Esperance 1-0 in the final held in Cairo. The first leg in Tunisia was a 0-0 draw, making this game crucial. Al Ahly scored just four minutes in when an Esperance player accidentally deflected a header into his own net. The header came from a corner by...
