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HANGZHOU, China, Sept 25, 2023 (AFP) – ESports tickets costing up to $137 are like gold dust at the Asian Games with desperate fans signing up multiple times through a lottery system in hope of seeing their gaming heroes live. For the unlucky ones, they have instead waited outside the gates of the futuristic-looking Hangzhou Esports Center, craning their necks to look inside the official Games buses passing through. ESports is making its debut as […]
By Martin PARRY India claimed the first world record of the Hangzhou Asian Games on Monday as hosts China snapped up more gold medals and 15-year-old skateboarder Hinano Kusaki triumphed for Japan. The Indian trio of Divyansh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil and Aishwary Tomar blew away the field with a new world best 1,893.7 points to win the men’s 10m air rifle team event on day two of the multi-sports extravaganza. They beat the previous mark […]
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Sept 22, 2023 (AFP) – France’s Caroline Garcia overpowered Victoria Azarenka in straight sets to reach the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open on Thursday. Third seed Garcia was always in control against her 10th-seeded opponent from Belarus, winning 6-3, 6-4 in 1hr 37min. The 29-year-old Frenchwoman will face either Greece’s Maria Sakkari or Colombia’s Emiliana Arango in the last four on Friday. Garcia, who is chasing the 12th title of her […]
By Sunghee Hwang K-pop powerhouse BTS didn’t get one, star footballer Son Heung-min did: South Korea grants limited exemptions from military service and for the first time eSports players can earn one. For South Korean men, winning gold in any sport at the Asian Games opening on Saturday in Hangzhou comes with an automatic exemption from 18 months in the army. This year eSports is a medal event for the first time, meaning South Korea’s […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 21, 2023 (AFP) – A year after Tua Tagovailoa went down with head injuries that changed how the NFL handles concussions, the Miami quarterback is the league’s top passer and the Dolphins are undefeated. The 25-year-old signal-caller leads Miami (2-0) into a home game Sunday against winless Denver (0-2) with an NFL-best 715 passing yards off 49 receptions from 75 attempts and four touchdowns with two interceptions. It was in the third week […]
By Peter STEBBINGS Some of the finest competitors on the planet will be in action at the Asian Games from Saturday until October 8. AFP Sports picks out eight athletes to watch in Hangzhou. Mutaz Essa Barshim (high jump, QAT) High jumper Barshim is the reigning Olympic champion — he famously shared gold with Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi at the Tokyo Games — and is chasing a third Asian Games gold. The Doha-born 32-year-old has […]
Top seed Ons Jabeur was sent crashing out of the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open on Wednesday, losing a grueling three-hour battle to Italy’s Martina Trevisan. Tunisian star Jabeur, the losing finalist at Wimbledon for the past two years, was downed 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 6-3 by the unseeded Trevisan, currently ranked 54th in the world. Jabeur looked to have taken a grip on the match after taking the first set on a tie-break and then surging […]
NEW DELHI, Sept 18, 2023 (AFP) – ESports’ debut as a medal event at the Asian Games starting this week will change attitudes and be a major step towards Olympic recognition at last, gamers and experts say. Gaming was a demonstration sport at the 2018 Asian Games but gold medals will be up for grabs this time in Hangzhou in seven different games. Players will battle in EA Sports FC, PUBG Mobile, Arena of Valor, […]
By Rebecca BRYAN World Athletics president Sebastian Coe is looking forward to seeing Tokyo Olympic Stadium packed with fans for the 2025 World Championships, but says the sport will feel the knock-on effects of the Covid pandemic through 2028. Coe, speaking Sunday in Eugene, Oregon, as the Diamond League finals concluded, said the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics until 2021 had created a logjam in the global calendar that challenged athletes and coaches. “I […]
By Cecil MORELLA Teenagers from a crowded Manila slum shoot hoops on a court bearing the shiny logo of the FIBA World Cup, the tournament where the Philippines team disappointed a basketball-mad nation. The team’s failure to make it past the first round — with three straight losses — has done nothing to diminish passion for the sport. The court where the teenagers are playing is at the Tenement, a decaying public housing estate lacking […]
Siya Kolisi had difficulty speaking immediately after his Springbok team completed an emphatic 35-7 demolition of New Zealand’s All Blacks in their final warm-up match before the Rugby World Cup. It was not because he was choked up with emotion. He simply could not be heard above the cheers of South African supporters at London’s Twickenham stadium when he stepped up for his after-match interview. “Thank you, thank you,” he said as he waited for […]
Formula One world championship standings ahead of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday: Drivers 1. Max Verstappen (NED) 339 pts, 2. Sergio Perez (MEX) 201, 3. Fernando Alonso (ESP) 168, 4. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) 156, 5. Carlos Sainz (ESP) 102, 6. Charles Leclerc (MON) 99, 7. George Russell (GBR) 99, 8. Lando Norris (GBR) 75, 9. Lance Stroll (CAN) 47, 10. Pierre Gasly (FRA) 37, 11. Esteban Ocon (FRA) 36, 12. Oscar Piastri […]
