ROME • Holders Bayern Munich brushed off their recent poor domestic form by throwing down a Champions League marker with an emphatic 4-1 last-16, first-leg win at Lazio on Tuesday to move closer towards the quarter-finals. Despite dropping five points in the Bundesliga last week and bringing a depleted squad to Rome – Corentin Tolisso,... » read more
The International Floorball Federation (IFF) Women’s World Floorball Championship (WFC) will return to Singapore in 2023, nearly two decades after the Republic last hosted the event in 2005. The 2023 tournament will be only the second time that the biennial Women’s WFC is held outside of Europe. The upcoming event will see entries from 16... » read more
TOKYO, Feb 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – After making a near-perfect start to the 2021 season on Rallye Monte-Carlo last month, the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team will target another strong result on Arctic Rally Finland on 26-28 February. Making its debut in the FIA World Rally Championship, the event takes the place... » read more
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb 17, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Continuum Market hosts a monthly event to discuss the future of United States & Cross-Border Blockchain Legislation. The next Continuum Blockchain Legislation Summit, a virtual monthly event, is scheduled to take place on Friday, 19th February 2021. The event brings together thought leaders, policy makers,... » read more
World boxing qualifier in June cancelled TOKYO • The final global boxing qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics is being scrapped, the Japan Boxing Federation said yesterday, with places at this summer’s pandemic-delayed Games likely to be determined by rankings. The qualifier was due to take place in Paris in June, but coronavirus travel restrictions and... » read more
ZHENGZHOU, China, Feb 14, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – On 4 February 2021, the 17th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup(TM) officially kicked off in Qatar, with top football clubs from five continents gathered in Doha. Among them are UEFA Champions League winners FC Bayern Munchen and host country representatives Al-Duhail SC, with other... » read more
Saudi Arabia, Feb 12, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Having hosted multiple high-level conferences across the globe, World Cloud Show (WCS) has established itself as the one of the world’s biggest and elite cloud show series. While it has proven itself as the quintessential cloud event, World Cloud Show has a reputation of getting global... » read more
AL RAYYAN (Qatar) • Bayern Munich manager Hansi Flick challenged his dominant machine to find another gear to secure their sixth trophy in a year, after advancing to the Club World Cup final with a 2-0 victory over African champions Al Ahly on Monday. The European champions face Tigres in the title decider tomorrow after... » read more
KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, SAUDI ARABIA (AFP) – England’s David Horsey fired a first-round 61 to seize the early lead in the Saudi International on Thursday, as US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau and world number one Dustin Johnson got off to solid starts. Big-hitting American DeChambeau carded a five-under 65 to sit tied-fourth after the... » read more
BANGKOK • Teenage prodigy An Se-young pushed to victory in a tough clash against Spain’s Carolina Marin yesterday at the World Tour Finals, recording her first win over the reigning Olympic champion in Bangkok. The world’s top players have been competing in the Thai capital for three consecutive tournaments in a bio-secure bubble amid the... » read more
BANGKOK • As reigning Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marin continues to go from strength to strength, her main rivals are searching for some semblance of consistency. The Spaniard, looking for a hat-trick of titles since badminton’s restart, marched towards a swift Group A victory over Canada’s 10th-ranked Michelle Li 21-16, 21-13 at the World Tour... » read more
LONDON • Shaun Murphy knows a rising star when he sees one. In 2005, the then 22-year-old became only the third qualifier to win the World Snooker Championship and the second-youngest to do so after Stephen Hendry. After seeing China’s Yan Bingtao stun four-time world champion John Higgins to claim the prestigious Masters title on... » read more
BANGKOK • Reigning Olympic champion Carolina Marin has bolstered her chances of claiming back-to-back gold medals in Tokyo after beating top seed Tai Tzu-ying yesterday to win the women’s singles at the Yonex Thailand Open. The opening event of the Badminton World Federation World Tour in Bangkok also saw Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen winning the men’s... » read more
A kick-boxing world title bout will headline One Championship’s first live event of 2021 which will take place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Friday next week, the mixed martial arts (MMA) organisation announced yesterday. One’s fifth show here in about three months, dubbed Unbreakable, will see Russian bantamweight kick-boxing world champion Alaverdi Ramazanov of... » read more
Blatter warded but not critical GENEVA • Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been taken to hospital, a Swiss newspaper said on Thursday, but it stressed that the disgraced official’s life was not in danger. Blick quoted his daughter Corinne Blatter Andenmatten as saying that the 84-year-old is “getting better every day but needs time... » read more
Homecoming for Hasselbaink at Burton LONDON • Burton Albion have reappointed former Chelsea and Netherlands striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as their new manager to replace Jake Buxton, who was dismissed following Tuesday’s 4-3 home defeat by Wigan Athletic, the League One (third-tier) football club said. Hasselbaink was first named Burton manager in November 2014 and... » read more
LONDON • Ugandan runner Joshua Cheptegei says he is targeting the 5,000m-10,000m double at the Tokyo Olympics after breaking the world records in both distances last year. The 24-year-old set a 10,000m mark of 26min 11.00sec at the Valencia World Record Day event in October to beat Kenenisa Bekele’s 26:17.53 set in 2005. At the... » read more
BANGKOK • Thailand’s badminton chief yesterday pledged that next month’s restart tournaments will be the “safest in the world” after heavyweights China withdrew because of coronavirus restrictions. China’s pullout blows a big hole in the draw for the three Badminton World Federation World Tour events from Jan 12 in Bangkok, the first in Asia since... » read more
After 13 months, Alvarez wins two titles on return SAN ANTONIO • Mexican pound-for-pound boxing champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez ended the longest layoff of his career on Saturday, capturing two world super middleweight titles by beating previously undefeated Briton Callum Smith with a unanimous decision victory. The three-division champion, fighting for the first time in... » read more
