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Russian and Belarusian athletes allowed to compete at Paris 2024 Olympics

IOC to admit athletes who have not supported war in UkraineControversial decision in defiance of Ukraine’s president Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics as long as they have not supported the war in Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee has decided. However athletes who do qualify in individual

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The UConn women’s basketball dynasty is over. But don’t count the Huskies out yet

The UConn women’s basketball dynasty was a juggernaut unlike any other in American sport. Their days of rampant supremacy may be over, but count them out at your own peril When the Associated Press released its women’s college basketball rankings earlier this week, the top 10 was comprised of a familiar crowd: No 1 South

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Essex players faced racist abuse and discrimination, report finds

Abuse seen as ‘entirely normalised and tolerated behaviour’Essex dealing with process where sanctions may be imposed Several Essex players were subject to racist abuse and discriminatory treatment, an independent report has found. Reference to players’ ethnic, racial and religious origins was “entirely normalised and tolerated behaviour” within the dressing-room culture between the mid-1990s until around

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