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Basketball-BCLA: Riyadi Crushes China's Liaoning Flying Leopards
Basketball-BCLA: Riyadi Crushes China's Liaoning Flying Leopards

The Riyadi club, reigning champions of Lebanon, the WASL, the WASL Final 8 and the Dubai International Championship, started their Champions League Basketball Asia (BCLA) campaign on the right foot. The Lebanese club, representing West Asia, thrashed China's Liaoning Flying Leopards 118-75 on Sunday in Dubai. Riyadi delivered a convincing ...

Cedars Rally: Roger Feghali Dominates in the Heights
Cedars Rally: Roger Feghali Dominates in the Heights

Roger Feghali and his co-driver Joseph Matar, driving a Skoda Fabia, won the 29th Cedars Rally, organized by the Automobile and Touring Club of Lebanon (ATCL), over two days in the Northern Governorate. In hot summer weather, twenty-five teams started the rally on Saturday, and twenty-three reached the finish on Sunday. This race was the second ...

Alcaraz Eyeing History in French Open Final Against Zverev
Alcaraz Eyeing History in French Open Final Against Zverev

Carlos Alcaraz says that he is hoping to join the long list of Spanish French Open champions when he bids to become the youngest man to win Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces in the final against Alexander Zverev on Sunday. The 21-year-old defeated Novak Djokovic to win Wimbledon last year and also lifted the US Open trophy as a teenager in ...

Athletics: Imperious Jacobs Rules Rome as Italy Basks in 'Super Saturday'
Athletics: Imperious Jacobs Rules Rome as Italy Basks in 'Super Saturday'

Home favorite Marcell Jacobs retained his European 100m crown in Rome as Team Italy basked in their own “Super Saturday” with two further golds to surge to the top of the medals table. In a night of high-quality track and field at Rome's Stadio Olimpico, there was a record-extending seventh discus title for Croatia's Sandra Elkasevic. There ...

F1: Russell on Canadian Pole After Dead Heat With Verstappen
F1: Russell on Canadian Pole After Dead Heat With Verstappen

George Russell beat Max Verstappen to pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix on Saturday when the pair shared a best lap time of one minute and 12.000 seconds. The Briton took the prime starting spot because he set his lap time earlier in the session. In a dramatic conclusion to a closely-contested qualifying session, Mercedes' Russell was ...

Basketball: Riyadi Set Sights on Asian Champions League
Basketball: Riyadi Set Sights on Asian Champions League

Riyadi prepares for a new competition this season on the international stage. The journey to a new yellow victory begins on Friday at Sheikh Saeed Bin Maktoum Sports Hall in Dubai City, as part of the Basketball Champions League Asia 2024 (BCL Asia). The BCL Asia The Basketball Champions League Asia 2024 will be its inaugural edition, and the ...

Alonso Quickest in Practice at Rain-Hit Canadian GP
Alonso Quickest in Practice at Rain-Hit Canadian GP

Fernando Alonso led the way for Aston Martin in Friday's second free practice at the Canadian Grand Prix, the two-time world champion making the most of changing conditions to outpace Mercedes' George Russell on a wet day at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Alonso clocked a best lap in one minute and 15.810 seconds to beat Russell by 0.462 seconds ...

Swiatek Crushes Paolini to Win Third Consecutive French Open
Swiatek Crushes Paolini to Win Third Consecutive French Open

Poland's Iga Swiatek extended her French Open reign on Saturday as she thrashed Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 in the final to win her third successive Roland Garros title. World number one Swiatek dominated Italian 12th seed Paolini, a first-time Grand Slam finalist, needing just 68 minutes to capture a fourth crown in five years in Paris. Swiatek ...

From Refugee to Olympic Athlete: Jamal Valizadeh's Tale
From Refugee to Olympic Athlete: Jamal Valizadeh's Tale

Jamal Valizadeh, a refugee wrestler, overcame hardship to reach the Paris Olympics with the Refugee Olympic Team, driven by a decade-long dream of winning a medal. Sixteen hours of barely paid daily work in Turkey, swimming part of the Mediterranean, and ten years after all that ordeal, the Paris Olympics: for refugee wrestler Jamal Valizadeh, a ...

Gross Rescues Germany With Last-Gasp Winner Against Greece
Gross Rescues Germany With Last-Gasp Winner Against Greece

An 89th-minute winner from Pascal Gross snatched Euro 2024 hosts Germany a 2-1 win against Greece in a friendly in Moenchengladbach on Friday, one week out from the tournament's curtain-raiser. Brighton midfielder Gross blasted a rocket past German-born Greece goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos in the final minute to win the match for the home side, ...

Cedars Rally: A Feghali, but Which One?
Cedars Rally: A Feghali, but Which One?

The National Sporting Authority, part of the ATCL (Automobile and Touring Club of Lebanon), is organizing the 29th edition of the Cedars Rally this Saturday and Sunday. This event is part of the 2024 Lebanese Rally Championship and constitutes the second round of the championship. All eyes will be on Roger Feghali, multiple Lebanese champion, and ...

Zverev Beats Ruud to Set Up French Open Final with Alcaraz
Zverev Beats Ruud to Set Up French Open Final with Alcaraz

Alexander Zverev exacted revenge on Casper Ruud at the French Open on Friday to reach his second Grand Slam final and first since 2020, with Carlos Alcaraz standing between him and the title. Fourth seed Zverev, who had lost in the semi-finals at Roland Garros in each of the past three years, fought back to beat Ruud 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 in a ...