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Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist Olivia Breen has been named captain of Team Wales for Glasgow 2026.The 29-year-old will lead the team of 115 athletes out at what is her fourth Commonwealth Games.She won gold in the T38 100m in Birmingham 2022, having won a bronze medal in the same event as well as T38 long jump gold on the Gold Coast four years earlier. “It means so much,” said Breen. “I can’t wait to see Team Wales do everything to make everyone in Wales proud.”Wales is a big part of me and I was team captain for the athletics…
Morgan Lieberman/Getty Images For seven seasons, Dark Side of the Ring has told harrowing real life stories from the wrestling world. These stories are often told by the people who lived them or accounts given by those most closely connected to the stories. Dark Side of the Ring will kick off its new season on Tuesday, July 7 with a two-hour premiere about the history of TNA Wrestling. Next week, it’ll return to its hour-long format with the conclusion of TNA’s story. On an episode of “Talk Is Jericho”, the…
The most frequently mentioned word in Argentina right now is ‘bicampeonato’ (back-to-back World Cup championship).But the question everybody is thinking, and nobody wants to mention, is ‘what will we do when Messi retires’?Every new match the national team plays in the World Cup – such as the one against Egypt on Tuesday – is another step towards glory, a chance to achieve a feat only two other countries have managed (Italy in 1934 and 1938; Brazil in 1958 and 1962).Yet, each match also brings us closer to the retirement of Argentine football’s greatest icon: the national team captain, Messi.His goals…
The July 6 episode of WWE RAW was a fun episode, and it also included a big match for Sami Zayn, but it was an even bigger night for CM Punk. Zayn was the Undisputed WWE Champion, but it was anyone’s guess how it would turn out in the Second City. Sami Zayn shocked the world when he won the title at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia. It didn’t take long for Cody Rhodes to get a rematch for his championship, and it all came down to RAW this week. Fans in Chicago packed the building for this match.…
McGregor and Holloway are both former champions in the UFC but took very different paths to get to that point.Ireland’s McGregor signed for the UFC in 2013 as a featherweight and became unified champion after winning seven successive fights.The 37-year-old went on to make history when he won the lightweight title three fights later – becoming the UFC’s first simultaneous double champion.McGregor has won 10 and lost four of his bouts in the UFC, with three of his past four trips to the octagon ending in defeat.Holloway lost on his debut in 2012 and took 17 fights to get his…
Belgium midfielder Nicolas Raskin said his team felt a “sense of injustice” over United States striker Folarin Balogun’s one-match ban being suspended by Fifa shortly before their World Cup last-16 match.Balogun, 25, appeared certain to miss the tie in Seattle after being shown a straight red card for a foul on Bosnia-Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic in the previous round.But on Sunday Fifa suspended the automatic one-match ban for 12 months, leading to widespread criticism, with Uefa, Belgium and England boss Thomas Tuchel among those speaking out against the ruling.On Monday US President Donald Trump said he asked Fifa to review…
Maxxine Dupri has turned to the dark side. After months of being with Austin Theory in backstage moments, Dupri has seemingly joined The Vision. On the July 6 episode of Raw, Dupri was the decision maker in the WWE World Tag Team Championship match. Prior to the match, Paul Heyman gave a stern warning to Theory on needing to do something to keep his services. The newly crowned Street Profits lost the titles back to The Vision after Dupri gave a low blow to Angelo Dawkins. Austin Theory and Bron Breakker become tag team champions again. Post match, Dupri jumped…
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Uefa laid down new battles lines on Tuesday, when voicing strong opposition to the Balogun decision. European football’s governing body said Fifa had “crossed a red line” and described it as an “unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision”.But this was not the first time Uefa has crossed swords with Fifa.In May 2025, Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin led a group of European delegates in staging a walk-out during a break at the Fifa Congress.Infantino had been on a diplomatic tour of the Middle East alongside Trump and arrived two hours 17 minutes late.Uefa has looked to score political points during the World…
A major recurring theme at the past few major tournaments has been about whether Ronaldo should start.He has scored 146 goals for his country, a record in men’s international football – but recently cynics have suggested he does not offer much else.And with fame and status that transcends the game, Martinez seemingly dared not drop him.But a team filled with some of the best defenders and midfielders in the world may have hoped to do better than make the last 16.Four of the squad won the helped Paris St-Germain win the past two Champions League titles – left-back Nuno Mendes,…