This Is Beirut 2024-03-03 18:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Dominican Thea LaFond won the women's triple jump at the world indoors championships in Glasgow on Sunday, the third and final day of competition. LaFond managed a best of 15.01 metres in her second effort, the sole competitor to go over the 15m mark. She then passed on her four remaining chances to jump as the field failed to come close to her ...
Makram Haddad 2024-03-03 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The first edition of the international "Rolling Half Marathon" (21.1 km), organized jointly by the Beirut Marathon Association (BMA) and the Lebanese Athletics Federation, took place this Sunday in the North Lebanon region, in rather grumpy and rainy weather. No fewer than 800 male and female runners, of around ten different nationalities and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-03 12:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
LeBron James became the first NBA player to reach 40,000 career regular-season points on Saturday, the 39-year-old superstar scoring nine against defending champion Denver to achieve the milestone. But James called the historic effort "bittersweet" because it came in a losing cause as Nikola Jokic scored 35 points to rally the Nuggets late for a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-03 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Saturday his side were "bothered" after midfielder Jude Bellingham was sent off after the controversial final whistle in the 2-2 La Liga draw at Valencia. England's Bellingham was shown a red card after protesting after referee Jesus Gil Manzano blew for time an instant before Bellingham hit what would ...
2024-03-02 20:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Riyadi Beirut won the summit of the 14th day of the Lebanese basketball championship against Champville Maristes 89-83 in an intense and tactical match between coaches Ahmad Farran and Sabah Khoury. The Course of the Game The game got off to a slow start between the two teams, which was expected after a three-week absence from the tournament ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-02 19:51 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Three-time world champion Max Verstappen began his title defence in flawless fashion on Saturday when he guided his Red Bull team to a crushing one-two triumph, ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez, at the Bahrain Grand Prix. In a statement of emphatic superiority, the 26-year-old Dutchman came home 22.5 seconds clear of Perez, who started from fifth, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-02 13:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Boston Celtics, fueled by 32 points from Jayson Tatum and 21 three-pointers, withstood a 37-point triple-double from Luka Doncic to beat the Dallas Mavericks 138-110 on Friday and push their NBA winning streak to 10 games. Tatum took awhile to warm up, missing all four of his shots in the first quarter, but the All-Star forward scored 16 in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-02 10:26 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Max Verstappen delivered some much-needed relief for his Red Bull team on Friday when he resisted Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to claim pole position for Saturday's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. The defending three-time world champion picked up where he left off last year by topping the times in a closely-contested qualifying session at the ...
Makram Haddad 2024-03-01 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia has just organized a freestyle skiing event that is controversial on an ecological and humanitarian level. Not even Hergé, the father of Tintin, saw this coming. Hergé was a visionary in more ways than one. His lunar adventure foreshadowed the Apollo 11 mission, almost fifteen years before Neil Armstrong set foot on the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-01 17:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami face an early season derby test when they host Florida rivals Orlando City in Major League Soccer on Saturday. Messi's stoppage time equalizer in Sunday's 1-1 draw at the Los Angeles Galaxy ensured that Miami remain unbeaten after opening their campaign with a 2-0 win at home to Real Salt Lake. Despite the results, ...
2024-03-01 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Olympic Organizing Committee organized a "Relay Race" in the courtyard of the Palais des Pins in Beirut under the slogan "Land of Games," in collaboration with the Sports Academy. With 150 days to go before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris next summer, the organizers decided to stage a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-01 10:39 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Los Angeles Lakers, fueled by 40 points from Anthony Davis and 31 from LeBron James, pulled off another NBA thriller on Thursday, beating the Washington Wizards 134-131 in overtime. One day after James reeled off 34 points -- 19 of them in the fourth quarter -- to key a come-from-behind victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, the Lakers had to ...