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A trio of American stars highlight Thursday’s track and field line-up at the Olympics. Noah Lyles goes for a sprint double while Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone takes on Femke Bol in the women’s 400m hurdles. Grant Holloway will also bid to add Olympic gold to his three world titles in the 110m hurdles in Paris. AFP Sport looks at five stand-out events ...

Supporters of ‘Bangladesh Football Ultras’ have demanded the resignation of Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin, vice-president Abdus Salam Murshedi and women wing chief Mahfuza Akter Kiron. Some members of the organisation went to Bangladesh Football Federation bhaban on Wednesday morning and submitted a written letter, it was learnt. In a post on social media, Bangladesh Football Ultras’s president Aminul ...

Reigning Champions League and La Liga champion Real Madrid concluded a pre-season US tour on Tuesday with a 2-1 triumph over Chelsea while AC Milan won on penalties after playing Barcelona to a 2-2 draw. There were 62,617 spectators at the home stadium of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, North Carolina to watch Vinicius Junior make his first start ...

ICC’s internal security team is monitoring the unrest in Bangladesh and has shortlisted the UAE, India and Sri Lanka are in the shortlist to be back-up venues in case the ICC is forced to shift the women’s T20 World Cup later this year out of Bangladesh, according to ESPNcricinfo. An ICC official said on Monday that the situation in Bangladesh ...

Thierry Henry’s France have their sights set on a place in the gold medal match in the Olympic men’s football as they face Egypt in the semifinals on Monday, while Spain take on an impressive Morocco. France are dreaming of a second men’s football gold — 40 years after their first — on home soil and will be overwhelming favourites ...

Novak Djokovic beat Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday to claim a maiden Olympic title and become just the fifth player to complete a career Golden Slam. The 37-year-old Serb, competing in his fifth Games, came through 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/2) in an enthralling final at Roland Garros to add Olympic gold to his 24 Grand Slam triumphs.  

Erling Haaland’s hat trick, including two goals in the first five minutes, led Manchester City over Chelsea 4-2 on Saturday in an English club football friendly at Columbus, Ohio. Reigning Premier League champion City scored goals 54 seconds apart in the first half and 71 seconds apart in the second half to dominate the fixture, part of a US pre-season ...

Thousands of young people in the UK were tricked into paying money for non-existent Premier League football tickets last season, according to an estimate by Lloyds Bank. It said that football ticketing fraud against its customers was up by around a third compared with the previous season, and warned fans to be on their guard. Banking industry group UK Finance ...

Defending champions Canada take on Germany on Saturday in a bid to reach the semi-finals of the Olympic women’s football tournament after they made the knockouts despite a points deduction over a spying scandal. Four-time gold medallists the United States and World Cup holders Spain are also in action in the last eight. Canada’s hopes of repeating their run to ...

FIFA said on Thursday it had invited FIFPRO Europe and the European Leagues body for talks following a dispute over the sport’s calendar. On July 23, the global players’ union FIFPRO and European Leagues, which brings together more than one thousand clubs from 33 countries, filed a complaint to the European Commission accusing FIFA of abusing its position, AFP reports. ...