Former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamine Diak, a lawyer and one of the association's doctors are suspected of accepting bribes from the All-Russian Athletics Federation for hiding the doping cases of Russian athletes. On Wednesday, Diak and other suspects were arrested in France ...
An American athlete born in Ukraine, Oksana Masters, has returned to her homeland. 19 years later, Oksana is back in Ukraine. With yellow-blue flowers in her hands, a smile and ready to rediscover Ukraine. “I’m delighted, so excited that I’m already...
Many sports have their own supranational leagues: both clubs from the United States and Canada play in the American National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. In Europe, there is the Continental Hockey League, as well as the Champions League, in which the strongest football clubs meet (however, in the case of football, teams also play in national ...
At the World Wrestling Championships, which is hosted by Las Vegas, the Ukrainian national team received its first gold medal. Greco-Roman wrestler Jean Belenyuk became the world champion for the first time in the weight category up to 85 kg, reports Espresso.TV. The Ukrainian “warmed up” in the qualifying round against the Mexican, winning...
Former world number four James Blake was arrested on Wednesday right on the street, next to the official hotel of the United States Tennis Association, when he caught a taxi to go to Flushing Meadow, where the next working day of the US Open was taking place. Plainclothes policeman without explanation...
The organizers of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, twice confused the Russian anthem at the awards ceremony following the exercise with the hoop. Russian Margarita Mamun won the hoop exercise at the World Championship. The second was the Russian Alexandra Soldatova, the third - the Ukrainian Anna Rizatdinova. The organizers played the wrong melody twice, ...
The organizers of the World Wrestling Championship, held in Las Vegas, confused the Russian anthems during the awarding ceremony. According to the Russian Wrestling Federation, during the award ceremony of the Russian Greco-Roman wrestler Roman Vlasov, the anthem of Russia sounded, which was used from 1991 to 2000, ...
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to fight in the ring with American actor Steven Seagal. The proposal came on Friday, September 4, when the Russian leader came to inspect the aquarium on Russky Island. On the spot he was met by the governor of Primorye Vladimir Miklushevsky, members of ...
Lesya Tsurenko defeated Lucy Shafarzhova in the first round of one of the four Grand Slam tournaments. For the final victory, the Ukrainian tennis player needed two sets. In the second game, the Czech woman managed to take only one game - 4: 6, 1: 6. A compatriot made her way to the second round ...
Journalists have calculated how many hours the owner of the White House, Barack Obama, spent playing golf during his presidency since 2009. “The head of state played 247 games of golf, which amounted to over 1,1 thousand hours. He played almost everyone ...