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Apr 10, 2025

Cricket returns to Olympics after over a century

Paris 1900 was the last Olympic games to feature Cricket. Only one match was played; a two-day test between Great Britain and France. The upcoming Los Angeles games will instead feature crickets’ newest format, the T20.

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Reuters
Mar 20, 2025

Just one round of voting needed to elect new IOC president

The race for the most powerful job in world sport reached its conclusion just minutes after IOC members cast their ballots in Greece.

he International Boxing Association (IBA) will award Italy's Angela Carini, who lost her welterweight round-of-16 bout against Algerian Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics in 46 seconds on Thursday, ,000 in prize money, it said on Frida

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Reuters
Aug 03, 2024

IBA to award prize money to Carini despite loss to Khelif

The IBA was stripped of its international recognition by the International Olympic Committee last year,

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Reuters
Aug 02, 2024

IOC saddened by ‘aggression’ against boxers over gender issues

“The IOC is saddened by the abuse that the two athletes are currently receiving,” it added. “Every person has the right to practice sport without discrimination.”

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Reuters
Jul 25, 2024

France struggles with its hijab rules for Olympics opening ceremony

“You are selected for the Olympic Games, organised in your country, but you can’t take part in the opening ceremony because you wear a scarf on your head”.