DES MOINES: Triple jump king Christian Taylor believes the venue of next year’s Olympics in Tokyo could inspire him to finally overhaul Jonathan Edwards’ 24-year-old world record. Taylor, 29, has dominated his event for much of the past decade, winning Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016 and World Championship
WASHINGTON: Gervonta Davis remained unbeaten with a second round technical knockout on Saturday over Ricardo Nunez in a super featherweight homecoming bout on Saturday. The 24-year-old from Baltimore surprised Nunez with a devastating left hook midway through the second round before finishing him off with a series of left and
NEW YORK: Gamers using the pseudonyms “Nyhrox” and “aqua” became the first Fortnite world champions in the duo division in New York on Saturday, winning $1.5 million each. Competitors gathered in the Big Apple to determine who is top dog at the shoot-’em-up survival game, which has become an international
DES MOINES (United States): Allyson Felix’s bid to qualify for the World Championships fell just short while 400m runner Fred Kerley and pole vaulter Sam Kendricks lit up the US Athletics Championships on Saturday. Felix, 33, racing in her first meeting for more than a year after taking time off
KOBE (Japan): Carles Perez scored his first two goals for Barcelona as the Spanish giants won 2-0 against a Vissel Kobe side featuring Andres Iniesta, a legend of the Catalan club. As Kobe’s Iniesta, David Villa and Sergi Samper were all reunited with their former team, it was Perez who
YOKOHAMA (Japan): Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and Lukas Nmecha were all on target as Premier League champions Manchester City wrapped up their Asian tour with a 3-1 win over Japan’s Yokohama Marinos on Saturday. Bernardo Silva fed De Bruyne for the game’s opener in front of 65,000 fans at
MACAU: Portuguese midfielder Joao Mario scored the final spot-kick as Inter Milan beat Neymar-less Paris Saint-Germain on penalties in Macau on Saturday. With their want-away Brazilian superstar left out of the trip to the former Portuguese colony, PSG were seconds from victory before Samuele Longo’s injury-time equaliser made it 1-1.
HONG KONG: Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters, including flight attendants, held a rally in the airport’s arrival hall yesterday to “educate” visitors about the demonstrations currently roiling the international finance hub as it braces for another weekend of protests. The cavernous hall is usually filled with excited friends and relatives
NEW DELHI: Iran has freed nine of 12 Indian crew from a Panama-flagged tanker seized on July 14, India’s foreign ministry said yesterday. Iran had accused the MT Riah ship of smuggling contraband fuel when it was detained, amid mounting tensions between the Iranian government and both Britain and the
TAIPEI: A smuggling scandal implicating Taiwan’s presidential bodyguards has engulfed China Airlines after the island’s largest carrier revealed huge quantities of duty-free cigarettes were routinely sold to staff accompanying the island’s leader on visits overseas. The scam — which was first unveiled earlier this week — appears to have gone
