Olympics | Organizers say Tokyo Games cost $1.8B less than expected

The Tokyo Olympics cost $1.8 billion less than anticipated, local organizers said yesterday, 4 1/2 months after the Games ended. Organizers said the estimated official

Olympics | Ferreira takes ski halfpipe win, closing in on Beijing spot

Alex Ferreira joked that all the spins in his winning run of the men’s ski halfpipe final left him feeling dizzy. This might straighten things out

Amnesty flags Qatar rights abuses with French soccer body

Human rights activists in France have urged the country’s soccer officials to pay attention to rights violations of migrant workers in Qatar a year before the World

Barclays to invest USD40m in English women’s soccer as sponsor

Barclays is doubling its investment in English women’s football as part of its sponsorship of the top two divisions. The bank has extended a deal

Football | Aubameyang stripped of Arsenal captaincy, dropped for game

Arsenal stripped Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of the captaincy yesterday after another disciplinary breach, saying the striker hadn’t worked “to the rules and standards” set by the club.

The Buzz | Newcastle can now sign Saudi sponsors with EPL

Newcastle’s Saudi ownership can start signing up sponsors from the kingdom after new English Premier League rules were introduced to end the brief ban on clubs bringing in

Speedskating | Bowe, US men win titles at World Cup in Calgary

Brittany Bowe of the United States won the women’s 1,500 meters at the World Cup speedskating meet in Canada, where the American men won the team pursuit

Beijing Games relying on charters, temporary flights

Already roiled by the pandemic and a partial diplomatic boycott, the Beijing Winter Olympics face another challenge in finding airplane seats for all of the athletes and

China says US diplomatic boycott violates Olympic spirit

China yesterday accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit by announcing an American diplomatic boycott of February’s Beijing Winter Games, amid an increasingly bitter feud over the

Football | Benfica, Barcelona, AC Milan among teams seeking last-16 spots in CL

A look at what’s at stake in the final round of Champions League matches in the group stage, with five last-16 places up for grabs and three

Snooker | Zhao Xintong secures another big title for China in York

Zhao Xintong became the second Chinese player this year to capture one of snooker’s three major titles when he won the UK Championship yesterday . Competing

Boxing | From Serbia, Afghan boxers seek refuge, careers in West

They practiced in secret and struggled to get to an international tournament in Europe. Now, members of the Afghan national boxing team are seeking refuge in

Ballon D’Or | Putellas and Messi win awards

Lionel Messi won the men’s Ballon d’Or for a record-extending seventh time yesterday , ending the year in style after a brilliant final season with Barcelona and earning his first

Football | Ready for Rangnick: Sancho helps Man United draw at Chelsea

Chelsea 1, Man U 1 The cautious game plan, with Cristiano Ronaldo dropped to the bench, worked for Manchester United. Hitting Chelsea on the counterattack, with Jadon Sancho scoring his first Premier

Six more positive Covid-19 cases at Leipzig, nine in quarantine

German soccer club Leipzig reported six more positive coronavirus cases on Friday following its Champions League game in Belgium against Brugge. Defender Willi Orban, forwards Yussuf Poulsen and Hugo Novoa, and

IIHF meets to review Olympic eligibility of Chinese players

The International Ice Hockey Federation council held a call Friday to review the Olympic eligibility of Chinese men’s national team players, though no decisions were made about the host country’s

Snooker | Pro star angry at having to play amateur after loss

After losing to an amateur in the first round of a major tournament, a former snooker world champion has blasted the decision to let a player without “a care in

Football | Ronaldo helps Man U into CL’s last 16 with win at Villarreal

Villarreal 0, Man U 2 A smart piece of improvisation by Cristiano Ronaldo helped send Manchester United into the last 16 of the Champions League as Michael Carrick’s spell as the

Football | World Cup host Qatar used ex-CIA officer to spy on FIFA

The tiny Arab nation of Qatar has for years employed a former CIA officer to help spy on soccer officials as part of a no-expense-spared effort to win and hold

Breaking News: World Cup host Qatar used ex-CIA officer to spy on FIFA

The tiny Arab nation of Qatar has for years employed a former CIA officer to help spy on soccer officials as part of a no-expense-spared effort to win and hold

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