Man City at crossroads: ‘No chance Premier League will pardon champions for financial fair play breaches’
City’s rivals, whether rationally or otherwise, fear that legal success for City would only be the start of attempts to destabilise the competitive balance of the English game. “They worry that it will lead to City and Newcastle (owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund) dumping a billion every summer; that’s the fear, that it blows the house down on financial sustainability across the whole of Europe,” says one European football executive.
EPL champions Man City start defence of title facing risk of demotion over financial fiddling
Manchester City have been down this road before. They were banned from European competitions for two years by UEFA for alleged breaches of financial regulations in February 2020. Yet the sanction was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in July of the same year when the court ruled “most of the alleged breaches were either not established or time-barred (outside of the organisation’s five-year statute of limitations)”. City were fined €10 million (£8.6 million or $11 million) for not cooperating with the investigation.
2024 Olympic Games: It’s au revoir Paris as Tom Cruise turns spotlight on 2028 Los Angeles games
The national stadium, France’s largest, was one of the targets of Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who killed 130 people in and around Paris on November 13, 2015. The joy and celebrations that swept Paris during the Games as Marchand and other French athletes racked up 64 medals – 16 of them gold – marked a major watershed in the city’s recovery from that night of terror.
Human are limited: Kenya’s marathon legend Kipchoge drops out of Paris Olympics race with pelvic joint pain
The 39-year-old Kipchoge started among the frontrunners but faded before the 20km mark, clutching his side as challengers streamed ahead of him. After the race he said back pain had overwhelmed him and made him stop.
Algerian boxing heroine Khelif delights newfound devotees with statement win at Paris Games
Imane Khelif, who won by unanimous decision, is the first Algerian woman to earn an Olympic boxing title and the first boxer from her country to claim gold since Hocine Soltani at Atlanta 1996. Women’s boxing has been in the Olympics since London 2012.
Paris Olympics: Kenya’s Wanyonyi leads the way into open 800 metres final
Wanyonyi, silver medallist at last year’s world championship, was pushed at the end by American Bryce Hoppel but ensured he crossed the line first in 1:43.32 minutes.
Fallen veteran football administrator Issa Hayatou leaves behind rich history in African sports
In 2002, during a period of deep financial and political turmoil at Fifa, Hayatou challenged then-president Sepp Blatter in an election he would lose heavily despite support for him in Europe. The 139-56 result showed Issa Hayatou had lost votes from his African colleagues.
Paris Olympics: Labelling Algerian boxer Imane Khelif ‘insufficiently female’ is illogic and fascistic gender ideology
Khelif is a female athlete who was deemed by the International Olympic Committee to be eligible to compete. She is only the latest woman of colour in sports to be deemed insufficiently female by a right-wing commentariat obsessed with forging the strictest gender binaries, contrary to social, biological and medical realities.
Paris Olympics: Kenya strikes gold, silver in 5000m race after Kipyegon had controversially been disqualified
Chebet produced a thrilling finish to win the first medal for her country at the Paris Olympics and smiled widely as she crossed the line after an exhausting performance. World champion Kipyegon had finished second in 14:29.60 but was disqualified after a clash with Ethiopian world record holder Gudaf Tsegay on the penultimate lap.
Cameroonian refugee Cindy Ngamba makes history with first ever medal for Refugee Olympic Team
Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offered his congratulations immediately after Sunday’s fight “for reaching the boxing semi-finals at Paris 2024 and being assured of a medal – the first ever medal for the Refugee Olympic team”.
