[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson powered into the women’s 100 meters final at the World Championships on Sunday with another easy win in her semi. The Jamaican, who won Olympic gold…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Julia Goerges made it through an all-German semi-final at the Citi Open on Saturday with a 5-7 6-4 7-5 win over Andrea Petkovic, setting up a title match against Ekaterina Makarova. In…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Justin Gatlin ruined Usain Bolt’s farewell party when the 35-year-old American won the world 100 meters title on Saturday, beating the Jamaican superstar into third and sparking a chorus of boos…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – The MotoGP championship resumed after the mid-season break with world champion Marc Marquez taking pole position at the Czech Grand Prix for the third time in four years. On a dry Brno…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – World Athletics Championships organizers rebuffed criticism from Usain Bolt about his starting blocks in the 100 meters on Saturday, insisting they had been checked and were the same model used in…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Mo Farah launched the World Athletics Championships in scintillating fashion on Friday with another consummate 10,000 meters triumph that further embellished his claim to being the greatest distance racer in the…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – The president of athletics’ world governing body the IAAF has vowed to continue efforts to stop athletes switching nationality and competing under ‘flags of convenience’. Speaking ahead of the opening of…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Big-serving South African Kevin Anderson squandered two match points before finally overcoming Austrian top seed Dominic Thiem in a compelling three-set slugfest at the Citi Open in Washington on Thursday. The clock…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Stephen Curry was not quite as accurate on the golf course as he is on the hardwood, but the NBA star did not embarrass himself when he teed it up on the…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Brazil forward Neymar’s world record transfer to Paris St Germain is close to completion after his club Barcelona said on Thursday that the player’s representatives had paid the 222 million euros…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – The Indonesian Masters has been named the final event of this year’s Asian Tour, tournament organizers said on Thursday. The seventh edition of the tournament will be held from Dec. 14-17 at…

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – In the middle of a sprawling construction site in equatorial Malaysia, over a dozen young men sporting ice skates and protective gear hit the skating rink to do their morning…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – World number four Stan Wawrinka has withdrawn from this month’s Rogers Cup in Montreal and the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati due to a knee injury, the Swiss said on Wednesday.…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Two-times British road champion Peter Kennaugh will leave Team Sky at the end of the season after signing a two-year contract with German team Bora-Hansgrohe. Isle of Man-born Kennaugh, who turned professional…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – An agreement to award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games simultaneously to Paris and Los Angeles may have provided the Olympics with some stability but the unprecedented move will not solve all…

[ad_1] BOBIGNY, France (Reuters) – The most deprived department in France is expected to be a big winner now Paris is in line to host the 2024 Olympics with thousands of homes and a new…

[ad_1] MOSCOW (Reuters) – If Russian hurdler Sergey Shubenkov retains his world title in London next week he will not be serenaded by his national anthem when he stands on the podium. Shubenkov and 18…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES/ PARIS (Reuters) – Paris moved within a hair’s breadth on Monday of formally being chosen to host the 2024 Summer Olympics after rival candidate city Los Angeles agreed to accept the consolation…

[ad_1] MOSTAR, Bosnia (Reuters) – Lorens Listo’s name may not headline the world’s sports pages, but on the streets of his native Mostar he is hailed as a champion among champions in a sport that…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Russia’s head of athletics Dmitry Shlyakhtin is traveling to London this week to address the sport’s governing body in a bid to have his country’s international ban lifted. Shlyakhtin, president of Russia’s…

[ad_1] (The Sports Xchange) – Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre became the 31st player in Major League Baseball history to record 3,000 hits Sunday when he ripped a bouncing double on a 3-0 pitch…

[ad_1] BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Sebastian Vettel won a tense Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday in a Ferrari one-two that stretched his championship lead to 14 points after Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton sportingly surrendered third place…

[ad_1] SYDNEY (Reuters) – A war of words has broken out between two of Australia’s fastest swimmers with dual world 100 meters freestyle champion James Magnussen standing by criticism of the team’s relay tactics at…

[ad_1] BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Caeleb Dressel of the United States became the first swimmer to win three gold medals in a single evening at the world championships after producing a trio of storming performances on…

[ad_1] BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Ferrari’s Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel took pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday as Mercedes title rival Lewis Hamilton missed out on a record-equalling career 68th. The…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Denver Broncos linebacker Shane Ray could miss the start of the NFL season after sustaining a ligament tear in his left wrist that will sideline him for six to eight weeks. Ray…

[ad_1] BUDAPEST (Reuters) – – Russia took triple gold across the 200-metre events at the world championships on Friday, thanks to Anton Chupkov and Yuliya Efimova in a breaststroke double and Evgeny Rylov in the…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – The world athletics championships in London next month are expected to have the highest attendance figures in the event’s history after organisers announced on Friday that more than 650,000 tickets have…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Former United States coach Bob Bradley has been named the inaugural manager of the Los Angeles Football Club, the Major League Soccer expansion team that will start playing next year. For Bradley,…