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US set to be host to biggest sporting events with guests it doesn’t want

By ChinaPulse.com

Call it big, beautiful timing. On Tuesday, Fifa announced it had taken an office in Trump Tower. On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced he would attend the Club World Cup final. And who could begrudge the US president a little sporting entertainment afte…

Nigeria: Gadzama, Udo-Obong Arrive for CAA U18/U20 Championships

By AllAfrica News: Sport

[Daily Trust] Two members of Team Nigeria’s gold winning 4x400m relay squad at Sydney 2000 Olympics, Fidelis Gadzama and Enefiok Udo-Obong have arrived in the country ahead of the 2025 CAA U18/U-20 championships.

Wimbledon’s stand on Russia has been reduced to meaningless gestures

By ChinaPulse.com

Open this photo in gallery: Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is one of four Russian or Belarusian players who could reach the semifinals of women’s singles play at Wimbledon.KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images
When Wimbledon decided to ban…

Rwanda: Over 140 Selected for 2026 Youth Olympic Games Preparations

By AllAfrica News: Sport

[New Times] Ministry of Sports has selected 147 promising athletes under the age of 16 years as part of early preparations to represent Rwanda at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games, which will take place in Dakar, Senegal.

IOC president Coventry pauses 2036 Olympics hosting contest

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Open this photo in gallery: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry speaks during the opening of the executive board meeting of the IOC, at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland.Jean-christophe…
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IOC’s Coventry pauses 2036 Olympics hosting contest in 1st big decision of her presidency

By ChinaPulse.com

India’s push toward winning the 2036 Olympics hosting contest seemed to stall a little on Thursday in the first big decision of Kirsty Coventry’s IOC presidency.
Coventry paused the fast tracking of a preferred bidder — a signature policy o…

Here’s New Delhi’s game plan to solve the Hormuz riddle

By ChinaPulse.com

New Delhi is activating an emergency playbook to safeguard its oil supplies, as a fragile truce prevails in West Asia after 10 days of conflict. The strategy involves bypassing the critical Strait of Hormuz in Iranian waters via two pipelines; tapping …

Now it’s dogs doing Olympic diving in the next AI video craze to sweep the Internet from the Veo 3 rival Hailuo 02

By ChinaPulse.com

You can tell this is AI because it gets the simple text “1nd” and “2st” wrong.
New diving dogs AI-generated video follows the cat Olympics craze
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Are dogs better at ‘diving’ tha…

Nigeria: Siasia Refutes Mikel’s Claims Over Flight Expenses for 2016 Rio Olympics

By AllAfrica News: Sport

[Leadership] Samson Siasia, the former head coach of Nigeria’s U-23 football team, has refuted claims made by John Obi Mikel regarding the payment of flight tickets for the team’s journey to the 2016 Rio Olympics.