BRISBANE, Australia – Three-time Olympian Cate Campbell expressed relief Monday as the Australian team began being vaccinated against Covid-19 ahead of the Tokyo Games.
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Tokyo Olympic athletes face tracking apps if virus persists, says task force
TOKYO– Olympic athletes could face strict controls on movement and repeated coronavirus tests under measures discussed Wednesday by a task force charged with finding ways to safely hold the postponed Tokyo 2020 Games. With less than a year until the…
State Minister for Sports hand over cheques among insolvent athletes
DHAKA – “Bangabandhu Krirashabi Kalyan Foundation” continued their great initiative as the foundation today distributed cheques of monthly sports allowance among the eighty four insolvent athletes. The State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell MP handed over the…
State Minister distribute cheques among insolvent athletes
DHAKA – State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell MP today for the first time distributed monthly sports allowance among the eighty five insolvent athletes through a programme held today at conference room of National Sports Council here.…
Austria plans to allow professional athletes to train
Professional athletes in Austria will be able to resume training before the end of April as the country eases restrictions to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the government announced on Wednesday.
Chinese athletes get ready for Beijing 2022
With Tuesday marking a two-year countdown until the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Chinese athletes are not wasting a single second in preparation for the quadrennial winter sports extravaganza on home soil.
LaMelo Ball, other athletes, aid Australian wildfire victims
Melbourne (AP/UNB) — Top American NBA prospect LaMelo Ball says he will donate some of the salary he receives from the National Basketball League’s Illawarra Hawks to victims of the wildfires devastating eastern Australia. Ball, tipped to be chosen in…
Athletes bring three more gold medals for Bangladesh
Dhaka – Bangladesh’s athletes clinched three more gold medals in kumite events of karate of the 13th South Asia Games on the 3rd day of the 10-day seven-nation regional meet at the Karate Hall of Satdobato Sports Complex in Lalitpur,…
5 Bangladeshi athletes leave for India
Dhaka – Five Bangladeshi athletes, including a woman, left the capital for India on Thursday to take part in the 35th Indian National Junior (U-20) Athletics Championships’2019 scheduled for November 2-6 at Acharya Nagarjuna University in Andhra Pradesh.