This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 09:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
South Sudan's basketball team nearly delivered a stunning upset to a United States team of NBA superstars on Saturday before losing 101-100 in an Olympics warm-up game in London. LeBron James, 39, the all-time NBA scoring leader, registered a game-high 25 points, including the deciding points on a driving layup with eight seconds remaining at the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 20:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lando Norris claimed pole for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday ahead of Oscar Piastri as McLaren celebrated their first front row lock-out in over a decade. Red Bull's three-time world champion Max Verstappen took third in qualifying to start Sunday's race on the second row with the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz for company. Verstappen's under ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 19:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Noah Lyles set himself up perfectly for the Paris Olympics by haring to a personal best in winning the 100m at Saturday's Diamond League meeting. In the last sprint before the Olympics, Lyles was relatively quick out of his blocks and tore down the track at London Stadium to win in 9.81 seconds. Importantly, he easily held off a clutch of ...
Makram Haddad 2024-07-20 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Saint-Moritz is undoubtedly a significant milestone for Lebanese sports, as it was in this small Swiss town that the Olympic adventure for athletes from the Land of Cedars began in 1948. It was at the Winter Games of 1948 in Saint-Moritz that the first Lebanese delegation, comprising two athletes, Ibrahim Geagea and Mounir Itani, embarked on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 17:19 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Rafael Nadal reached his first final since winning the 2022 French Open, defeating Croatian qualifier Duje Ajdukovic in a three-set tussle in Bastad on Saturday. A day after his four-hour quarter-final victory, the 22-time Grand Slam champion was again tested to the limit by Ajdukovic, the world number 130 who had won just two tour-level matches ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 09:39 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
McLaren's Lando Norris said he had no intention of changing his "nice guy" behaviour after he outpaced world champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull to top the times on Friday in a sweltering second free practice ahead of this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix. The 24-year-old Briton, who trails Red Bull's three-time champion by 84 points in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 19:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Rafael Nadal fought into the semi-finals of the Bastad Open on Friday as he defeated Argentina's Mariano Navone 6-7 (2/7), 7-5, 7-5 in three hours and 59 minutes. The 22-time Grand Slam champion is through to the last four of a tournament for the first time since Wimbledon two years ago. "It was very close, long and tiring," said Nadal, whose ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 18:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Football Association (FA) have identified a "number of candidates" to replace Gareth Southgate as they search for an England manager capable of "winning a major tournament." Southgate resigned on Tuesday in the aftermath of England's Euro 2024 final defeat against Spain. The end of Southgate's eight-year reign has forced the FA into a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 14:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Carl Lewis says winning four successive Olympic long jump titles was the stand-out moment of a star-studded career during which he pioneered professionalism in a bid to leave track and field in a better place. Lewis showed remarkable longevity to claim long jump golds at the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics. The 63-year-old American's Olympic ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 13:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Denver Nuggets plan to sign NBA veteran Russell Westbrook as a free agent after the future Hall of Famer clears waivers, the Denver Post reported on Thursday. Westbrook picked up a $4 million player option in June to return to the Los Angeles Clippers, who moved him via a sign-and-trade on Thursday to the Utah Jazz, who are expected to reach ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 09:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Japanese gymnast Shoko Miyata has been sent home from the Paris Olympics over allegations of smoking, local media reported on Friday. The Japan Gymnastics Association was investigating the 19-year-old captain of the women's gymnastics team to decide if she had breached their code of conduct, reports said. Smoking is illegal under the age of 20 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 18:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Controversial English forward Mason Greenwood was poised on Thursday to sign for Ligue 1 side Marseille for a reported 30 million euros ($33 million) and fill the vacuum left by veteran Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The interest in Greenwood, 22, has not been universally welcomed in the port city due to charges including rape and assault being ...