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RIO DE JANEIRO - A scene in the Rio Olympic opening ceremony that spectators at a rehearsal thought depicted an attempted mugging of supermodel Gisele Bundchen sparked a bizarre polemic in Brazil on Monday.Details are top secret ahead of...
South Korea's Winter Olympics head organiser has appealed to the nuclear-armed North, which remains technically at war with his country and boycotted the 1988 Seoul Games, to join in a "peace" Olympics next year. Lee Hee-Beom is president and CEO...
RIO DE JANEIRO - The official opening of the Olympic Village in Rio turned to fiasco Sunday with the discovery of blocked toilets and leaky pipes, prompting Australia to call the facility "not safe or ready."Even Brazilian athletes who...
LOS ANGELES - Yi Jianlian may not like being compared to Yao Ming but he isn't shy about wearing his number 11 jersey this season with the Los Angeles Lakers. Speaking during the Lakers' practice on Friday in suburban El...
Most of the five stars on the Chinese flags being used at medal ceremonies at the Rio Olympics are misaligned, officials said, prompting a diplomatic protest and online fury.Chinese internet users were quick to detect a "plot" against the...
PETALING JAYA - Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim (pic) is the sixth president of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). The 32-year-old Tunku Ismail (pic) won the hot seat unopposed after Ketereh MP Tan Sri Annuar Musa's surprise announcement...
Outgoing national swimming head coach Sergio Lopez leaves for his new job at Auburn University's swimming and diving team in Alabama today.And the 48-year-old Spaniard departs knowing that, apart from mentoring Joseph Schooling to Singapore's first Olympic gold, he...
World number two Andy Murray says Maria Sharapova should be banned after her positive test for meldonium and questioned the Russian's use of the drug for medical purposes.The Briton also chided his own racket manufacturer Head after the company...
PETALING JAYA: A football player from Guam was booked after he celebrated a superb bicycle kick goal by proposing to his girlfriend. Napa Rovers player Ashton Surber had run to the side of the pitch, opening his jersey to reveal...
Hot on the heels of his most recent highlight-reel knockout, Burn “Hitman” Soriano returns to action on Friday Night, 10 February, to meet Malaysia’s Saiful “The Vampire” Merican in a bantamweight showdown at ONE: THRONE OF TIGERS, live from...