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Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall says she is “lucky and blessed to be alive” after being involved in a car crash.The 27-year-old American was on her way to training last week when she was involved in a “very scary” head-on collision, leaving her with a “severe” concussion. While not ruling herself out of this month’s inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championships in Budapest, the reigning world champion says she has been unable to train since the accident.”Luckily I walked away without any major injuries,” Davis-Woodhall wrote on social media.”At this point I’m working with my team and doctors to get…
Etsuo Hara/Getty Images Over the last decade, only Roman Reigns can argue to being as dominant a champion as Athena has been, holding the ROH Women’s World Championship for nearly four years while setting all sorts of records along the way. And it’s the drive that led Athena to becoming the “Forever Champion” that makes her want even more, this time in AEW. In an interview with “The Dallas Morning News” to promote AEW’s upcoming “Dynamite” episode in the area, Athena revealed that she wants to conquer AEW as she…
The International Equestrian Federation has lifted its ban on Russian athletes and officials after four and a half years.Riders, horses and officials from Russia and Belarus have been prohibited from representing their countries under their national flags at FEI events since March 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The international governing body will also allow events to be held in Russia as part of regulations that will come into effect on 5 October.The move means participants from Russia and Belarus will no longer be required to compete as Neutral Individual Athletes.The FEI’s decision comes after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced…
Kelani Jordan’s NXT Women’s Championship win got plenty of people talking, and apparently that didn’t stop once she went backstage. Jordan has now revealed what she heard from the WWE locker room after leaving Heatwave with the title. While speaking on Busted Open Radio, Jordan was asked what kind of reaction she received after defeating Kendal Grey for the NXT Women’s Championship. She admitted that even some people she doesn’t necessarily consider supporters had something to say about her accomplishment. “To my face, everyone has said that I’ve earned it. Even the people who may not be my biggest fans,…
Red Bull will be without Isack Hadjar for a second consecutive race, with the Frenchman set to miss this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix as he continues to recover from a wrist injury he sustained during the summer.Hadjar, 21, missed last month’s Dutch Grand Prix and will once again be replaced by New Zealander Liam Lawson in Monza.Lawson, who normally races for Red Bull’s second team, Racing Bulls, will compete alongside Max Verstappen this weekend – after finishing seventh last time.Lawson’s spot at Racing Bulls will once again be filled by reserve driver Yuki Tsunoda.Hadjar is understood to have broken his…
The summer transfer window is closed but there are still a host of talented players without a club and therefore available to sign for free.BBC Sport takes a look at some of the biggest stars who are currently out of contract and up for grabs.Paul Pogba, 33 (Last club: Monaco)Former Manchester United midfielder Pogba has played very little football since his 18 month doping ban ended in March 2025. The Frenchman made just six appearances for Monaco after joining them last summer and, after a series of injuries, the French club terminated his contract last month – one year before…
Kelani Jordan walked into the Sept. 1 episode of NXT as the new NXT Women’s Champion. She defeated Kendal Grey on Sunday at Heatwave. Kelani took to the mic to remind everyone that not only is she the only woman to have held the NXT Women’s North American Title, the TNA Knockouts World Title, and now the NXT Women’s Title…but she won all three titles with just one shot. She was interrupted by Jaida Parker. Parker says she is now focused on the NXT Women’s Title and reminds Jordan that she has already beaten her. Parker gets a title match…
Hampshire have decided that New Zealand all-rounder Scott Kuggeleijn will not represent the club having “listened to feedback from staff and supporters”. On Tuesday the Rose and Crown named him in their squad for a County Championship match against Warwickshire without announcing his signing on their social channels. The signing received criticism on social media and less than an hour before the start of play on Wednesday the county said that Kuggeleijn would not play any role in their final four games.Kuggeleijn, 34, faced a rape charge in 2015 and after a re-trial due to a hung jury he was…
Alexander Zverev rallied just in time to avoid becoming the first men’s No 1 seed to lose in the first round of a grand slam tournament since 2003, edging Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-5, 6-4 in a US Open match that ended in the early hours of Wednesday morning.Zverev could not cash in on repeated chances to break Sonego’s serve for much of the night and was in danger of becoming the first top-seeded man to fall in his first match in a major tournament since Ivo Karlovic beat Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon in 2003.It has not happened…
There is no denying that Arsenal wanted a game-changing attacker this summer – if there was one available. Not signing one this window does leave them with the chance to act again in January or wait completely until next summer to try to bring in a new forward. But there will be uncomfortable conversations about why there hasn’t been one during this window, even if the football leadership team are content with the business the club has done. Questions will of course be asked of Arteta, Berta and co-chair Josh Kroenke as to why, after Arsenal’s success, such an attractive…