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Facebook Tweet Email Link Double Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier has died in a climbing accident aged 31, her management and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) confirmed to CNN Sports. The retired German biathlete was struck by falling rocks at around midday local time on Monday while climbing Laila Peak in the Karakoram mountain range, her team said on Instagram Tuesday. “The DOSB and the whole of German sport mourn the loss of Laura Dahlmeier,” Thomas Weikert, President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, said in a statement to CNN Sports. “We are deeply shocked by the sudden and much…
Facebook Tweet Email Link French swimmer Léon Marchand took more than a second off the 200-meter individual medley world record on Wednesday to shatter American Ryan Lochte’s long-standing mark. Competing in the semifinals at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Marchand clocked a time of 1:52.69 – 1.31 seconds faster than Lochte’s record set in 2011. He may go even faster in Thursday’s final, during which he will look to win a sixth world title and add to the four Olympic gold medals he claimed at last year’s Paris Games. “What’s crazy is that it’s a whole second (faster than…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Late July is usually a time of great optimism and excitement for the NFL. Training camps are underway, preseason games are set to offer chances for rookies to shine and the highly anticipated regular season is a little more than a month away. Monday’s shooting at the New York City building that houses the league’s offices has shaken that anticipation, as the country’s most popular sport has been affected by a uniquely American problem – gun violence. At the same time, the league has had one of its most sensitive matters – the issue of brain…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Monaco AP — Clarifying promised rules on female eligibility, track and field’s governing body set a September 1 deadline Wednesday for athletes to pass a gene test for competing at the world championships. World Athletics said in March it would require chromosome testing by cheek swabs or dry blood-spot tests for female athletes to be eligible for elite-level events. The next worlds open September 13 in Tokyo and September 1 is “the closing date for entries and the date the regulations come into effect,” World Athletics said in a statement. The latest rules update gives certainty…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Hong Kong — Arsenal’s new striker Viktor Gyökeres broke the team’s all-time shirt sales record within days of joining the Gunners – now he hopes to repay the faith, telling CNN Sports in an exclusive interview that’s he’s excited to join the North London club. “There’s a lot of people happy with me here, so I just want to give it back on the pitch. I think it’s time for that,” the 27-year-old said, a day before Arsenal faces off with rival Tottenham Hotspur in the Hong Kong Football Festival on Thursday. “It’s been a lot,…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Hong Kong — Arsenal’s new striker Viktor Gyökeres broke the team’s all-time shirt sales record within days of joining the Gunners – now he hopes to repay the faith, telling CNN Sports in an exclusive interview that’s he’s excited to join the North London club. “There’s a lot of people happy with me here, so I just want to give it back on the pitch. I think it’s time for that,” the 27-year-old said, a day before Arsenal faces off with rival Tottenham Hotspur in the Hong Kong Football Festival on Thursday. “It’s been a lot,…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington — Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday and is accused by the Department of Justice of being a part of a high-stakes illegal gambling ring that ran out of one of his California homes. Arenas, 43, is facing a federal indictment on a count of conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business, one count of operating an illegal gambling business and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. According to the Justice Department, Arenas rented out an Encino, California, mansion to host illegal poker games. If convicted, Arenas faces up to…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Palestinian para-cyclist Alaa al-Dali has long dreamed about representing his people on an international stage. Following months of grueling training, al-Dali – an amputee with one leg – is putting everything he has into training for the Para-Cycling World Championships in August, after he and teammate Mohamed Asfour became the first Palestinians to finish in the top 20 at the Para-Cycling World Cup in May, securing their place in the prestigious competition. But keeping his mind on training is challenging most days, and near impossible on some, as his thoughts go towards the war in Gaza,…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Hong Kong — The latest meeting in one of soccer’s most heated rivalries will be the first ever to be held overseas, some 6,000 miles from its origin in the United Kingdom. The North London Derby between Premier League teams Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, a matchup stretching back 116 years, will cap off the Hong Kong Football Festival Thursday. The preseason friendly will take place in the city’s newly built 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium. Attendance is projected to break all-time local soccer records. “Of course, it’s a friendly, but there’s more to it,” new Spurs manager…
Facebook Tweet Email Link EDITOR’S NOTE: This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts. Former NFL star Shannon Sharpe, who has been one of the faces of ESPN’s morning sports debate show “First Take,” is no longer with the network, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. The breakup between the podcast star and the media outlet comes less than two weeks after Sharpe reached a settlement with an anonymous woman who filed a lawsuit against the famed tight end, accusing him of multiple instances of assault, sexual assault, battery and sexual battery. Later on Wednesday, Sharpe, 56,…