Team Kenya are building up to the commencement of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the departure of the first batch of athletes on Sunday evening. The East African country will have 83 athletes compete in six sports in Paris - athletics, rugby sevens, judo, fencing, swimming and volleyball, two fewer than the 85 athletes who participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Kenya's Sevens Rugby team...
The Extreme Fighting Championship lightweight title is at stake at Hexagon on Thursday, July 11 when reigning champion Igeu Kabesa takes on Humphrey Mulenga in EFC 115 maincard. Kabesa holds the EFC featherweight and lightweight titles and will put the latter he won at EFC 112 in April on the line against Mulenga. Mulenga, nicknamed King Cobra, is staging a return to the Hexagon for the...
Nathan Ake revealed that going direct made the difference in their comeback 2-1 win over Turkey in the Euro 2024 quarter-finals on Saturday night. The Oranje fell behind to Samet Akaydin's first half goal but forced their back in the second half through Stefan de Vrij's leveller and Mert Muldur's own goal. "It was you know, defensively they're very strong, very compact in the middle and...
Ons Jabeur has taken some positives despite her loss to Elina Svitolina in the third round of the ongoing 2024 Wimbledon championship. The Tunisian star was beaten in straight sets 1-6, 6-7 (4-7) by the Ukrainian, ending her hopes of winning the tournament where she was runner-up last year. Jabeur is now looking forward to coming back stronger for the reminder of the tennis season. "Yeah,...
Ousmane Dembele is confident France can win the Euro 2024 championship after defeating Portugal on penalties in Hamburg in Friday's quarter-final. Both sides played a goalless draw in 120 minutes and when it came to the resultant shootout, Les Bleus were the ones who came out on top 5-3, Dembele converting the first spot kick. The Paris Saint-Germain winger, who is of Congolese heritage, now believes...
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