LONDON - Sunderland have bolstered their defence by signing the Manchester United duo of Paddy McNair and Donald Love for a combined deal worth 5.5 million pounds (S$9.58 million), the Premier League club announced on Thursday."The versatile 21-year-olds have...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Armenian weightlifter Andranik Karapetyan was rushed to hospital in agony after appearing to dislocate his elbow during the men's 77kg competition at the Rio Olympics.The 20-year-old was in contention for a bronze medal when he...
All Olympic athletes all have lucrative sponsorship deals, right? Wrong. Many have to take side jobs just to get by.When Serena Williams takes to the court at the Rio Olympics this month, the US tennis star won't really be...
Forget swimming, athletics or gymnastics, the strongest competition for any medals at this Rio Olympics will be for cribbing.It is not just the swimmers who have been wagging disapproving fingers - albeit at each other - as the city,...
He was sixth fastest in the afternoon heats, obliterating his national record as he stormed into the semi-finals.It was his first time in earnest battle at the 2016 Rio Games, and Joseph Schooling seemed to be in a real...
RIO DE JANEIRO - The Rio Olympics diving pool will be back to its blue colour later on Wednesday (Thursday, Aug 11, Singapore time), Games organisers assured, blaming a drop in alkalinity levels for an uninviting green hue during...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Rugby powerhouse New Zealand were knocked out of the inaugural Olympic sevens tournament in the quarter-finals on Wednesday after a 12-7 loss to top seeds Fiji.Gifted a tournament lifeline when the Fijians beat the United...
Police are investigating an allegation that teenage British tennis player Gabriella Taylor was poisoned at Wimbledon last month, with her mother telling local media the 18-year-old had been "close to death".Taylor spent four days in intensive care after becoming...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Thousands of vitriolic comments left on Australian swimmer Mack Horton's Instagram account have been deleted by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC).Netizens, many of them Chinese, bombarded Horton's social media accounts after he called Chinese swimming...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Divers Pandelela Rinong and Cheong Jun Hoong delivered Malaysia's first medal at the Rio Games with a silver medal in the women's 10m platform synchro on Tuesday.Pandelela-Jun Hoong scored a total of 344.34 points after...
