Ukrainian coal miner Andrii’s face lit up when he talked about meeting Oleksandr Usyk.“Wow,” the 36-year-old said in English.Andrii and more than a dozen other war veterans were on hand when Usyk beat Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night to become the undisputed world heavyweight champ
Taiwan’s Huang Ying-hsuan on Saturday clinched a silver medal in the women’s under-46kg kyorugi at the Summer World University Games in Germany, while Taiwan’s women’s table tennis team won bronze.In the first round of the taekwondo sparring final, Huang went toe-to-toe with Kim Yun-seo 2-0, before
Besides being a fan, John Oliver has had a certain affinity for minor league baseball.On Saturday night, the comedian and host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight saw his latest crazy creation set out into the world as the Erie Moon Mammoths made their debut in front of a record crowd of 7,070 at UPMC Park.“
BOXINGPacquiao loses in comebackManny Pacquiao on Saturday night pushed back against his doubters, the odds and even Father Time — and nearly made some history. In the end, Pacquiao fell just short on the judges’ scorecards as Mario Barrios escaped with a majority draw to retain the WBC welterweight
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Kuo Hong-chih hits a home run off former New York Yankees pitcher and Taiwanese baseball legend Wang Chien-ming during the charity Home Run Derby at the CPBL All-Star Game at the Taipei Dome yesterday.
PENALTY MISS: ‘We practiced penalties,’ Spain coach Montse Tome said, while both her team’s spot-kicks were saved by Switzerland’s goalkeeper Livia Peng
Spain ended Switzerland’s dreamy midsummer run through its home Women’s European Championship in a 2-0 win in the quarter-finals on Friday despite missing two penalty kicks.Swiss resistance was broken by the world champion’s two goals in a five-minute spell midway through the second half.Athenea Del
Tadej Pogacar powered to victory in an uphill time trial on stage 13 of the Tour de France on Friday to stretch his lead in the race to more than four minutes.Jonas Vingegard and Remco Evenepoel clung on to their places in the overall top three, but this 10.9km time-trial triumph was defending champ
Tainan TSG Hawks slugger Steven Moya, who is leading the CPBL in home runs, has withdrawn from this weekend’s All-Star Game after the unexpected death of his wife.Moya’s wife began feeling severely unwell aboard a plane that landed at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Friday evening. She was r
Taiwan secured their first two medals at the Summer World University Games in Essen, Germany, on Friday, with the women’s taekwondo team bagging gold and the men securing bronze in the poomsae discipline. The Taiwanese women’s taekwondo trio — Chen Hsin-ya, Yang Chang-ying and Kuo Yen-yu — outperfor
Scottie Scheffler ignited his bid for a maiden British Open title by surging through the field to take a one-shot lead after the second round at Royal Portrush on Friday.The world No. 1 brushed aside two torrential rain showers in Northern Ireland to fire a seven-under par 64, the best round of the
Surfing enthusiasts have cheered the reopening of a beloved whitewater site in downtown Munich, the German city better known for partying at Oktoberfest than splashing in the waves.The Eisbach (“ice brook”) standing wave in the city’s Englischer Garten park was closed after tragedy struck in April w
A cyclist speeds down a staircase during an urban downhill competition in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday.
COMEBACK: England returned from a dire first half to make the score line even with only 11 minutes remaining on the clock, going on to win the shootout 3-2
England roared into the semi-finals of the UEFA Women’s Euro on Thursday after coming back from two goals down and then beating Sweden 3-2 in a chaotic penalty shoot-out to continue their title defense. Smilla Holmberg blasted over from the spot to settle the shootout drama in Zurich after the match
Taiwan’s professional basketball landscape is expected to become more integrated, as P.League+ (PLG) and the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL) plan to collaborate in the 2025-2026 season.The 10 teams from the two leagues met on Wednesday and “reached a consensus to collaborate,” TPBL comm
Austrian extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, died on Thursday in a paragliding accident in central Italy, local police said. He was 56.Baumgartner lost control of his motorized paraglider while flying over Porto Sant’Elpidio in I
It was a perfect pitch. The ball sped straight across home plate, where it was met with an equally powerful kick. Perryline Jimmie sprinted toward first base after her kick as her teammates erupted in cheers on the sidelines.Jimmie, 23, is a professional player of kickball, a close cousin of basebal
Tadej Pogacar powered to an impressive stage win on the first day in the Pyrenees to take back the Tour de France yellow jersey on Thursday.On a day when many wondered if he would suffer any ill effects from his crash the day before, Pogacar showed none and put himself in prime position for his four
Samoa’s Duncan Paia’aua beats Scotland’s Ben Muncaster to score a try during the international rugby Test match between Samoa and Scotland at Eden Park in Auckland yesterday. The Scots scored seven tries to Samoa’s two to win 41-12 in their last of a three-match tour of the South Pacific, which saw
HARRINGTON LAUNCH: It is the third time that Royal Portrush has hosted The Open, the first one in 1951, while weather forecasters warn to expect everything
The Open at Royal Portrush started yesterday the way the last one ended: A packed grandstand and throaty cheers for an Irish golfer.Padraig Harrington, a two-time Open champion, hit the opening shot of the 153rd edition of golf’s oldest championship with a piercing iron into the wind off the north A
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