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Shiffrin won’t defend GS world title after ‘PTSD struggle’ following crash

American suffered puncture wound in crash last year Shiffrin says she will still ski in slalom and team event Mikaela Shiffrin says she is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder following a crash in November and will not defend her gold medal in giant slalom at the Alpine skiing world championships. The American holder of a

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Dortmund’s season is spiralling out of control after own goals on and off pitch | Andy Brassell

Niko Kovac faces a tough task after BVB’s Waldemar Anton and Serhou Guirassy aided their former club Stuttgart It had to be him. Waldemar Anton can’t have relished changing ends at half-time on Saturday. The performance of Borussia Dortmund’s big summer purchase had already captured the defender’s time so far in Nord-Rhine Westphalia in microcosm,

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A ‘lovely sweet kid’: Tributes paid to John Cooney after Irish boxer’s death

Galway-born fighter died after intercranial haemorrhage Calls to make sports such as boxing and rugby safer John Cooney, the young Irish boxer who has died after a title fight in Belfast, has been described by the former world champion Barry McGuigan as a “lovely sweet kid” whose life was “snapped away”. As a condolence book

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