talkSPORT’s Danny Murphy left Jim White aghast when admitting he wouldn’t trade his Community Shield win for an Olympic gold medal. The prestigious international sporting tournament mak
A pure gold bowl priced at around 10 million yen that was stolen from a Tokyo department store last week was confiscated on Monday at a secondhand store in the capital, according to police. Masaru Horie, who was arrested Saturday for the theft, is believed to have received about 1.8
Ifeanyi Ezeokoli, Managing Director, Incel Tourism Group, is confident that Team Nigeria can win up to 10 gold medals at the Olympic Games when the Sports Performance Fund is fully in place. Ezeokoli, a fitness buff and avid sports fan, made the statement when he hosted representatives of the SPRF in his Ikoyi, Lagos office Read More
Francisco “Morochito” Rodriguez, the boxer who won Venezuela’s first Olympic gold medal, died Tuesday at age 78.
Taylor awaits challenge tournament winner in best-of-3 finals; Levi Haines
World Athletics said track-and-field stars. The change breaks 128 years of the Olympic tradition as amateur competition. Britain's leading swimmers believe this could cause friction at the Olympics
This year's Olympic games will be held in France from July 26 to August 11. Several personalities will carry the Olympic flame this summer including ex-footballer Jean-Pierre Papin and actor Jamel Debbouze. The first French torchbearer for the 2024 Olympics will be a former Olympian who won Gold at the games at just 17-years-old
The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) is upbeat on the prospect of the Philippines taking home gold medals in the upcoming Paris Olympics.
Prize money at the Olympic Games is in the spotlight after a move by World Athletics to reward their track and field athletes from Paris 2024 onwards. The move from Sebastian Coe broke with 128 years of tradition by becoming the first sport to give athletes prize money if they are victorious in Paris this summer. Champions will come away with $50,000 (£39,360) if they reach the top of the podium. The decision blindsided the International Olympic Committee, which has never awarded money for...
Southern California’s rivers and creeks once teemed with large, silvery fish that arrived from the ocean and swam upstream to spawn. But today, these fish are seldom seen. Southern California steelhead trout have been pushed to the brink of extinction as their river habitats have been altered by development and fragmented by barriers and dams. Their numbers have been declining for decades, and last week California’s Fish and Game Commission voted to list Southern California steelhead trout as...
Dutch athletes can hope for a record number of medals at the summer Olympics in Paris this year, according to sports data bureau Nielsen’s Gracenote. With 100 days to go before the games start, Gracenote is putting the Netherlands in fourth place in its virtual medal’s table, with 38 medals across up to 13 sports, two more than in Tokyo three years ago. Last year, the Dutch Olympics committee and sports federation said it had softened its ambitions for the
Matt Richards has called for financial rewards for athletes across all sports given the vast revenue generated by the Games