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Olympians will be able to apply for a new grant of $10,000 (£7,600) for each Games they compete in, says the International Olympic Committee.The ‘fit for the future Olympian grant’ has been established to support the sporting career of Olympic athletes, or their career transition.A fund of $140m (£106.5m) will be set aside for each Olympic Games, with the athletes who competed at this year’s Winter Olympics the first to be able to apply.Around 14,000 Olympians per Games are expected to be eligible for the grant.It will not be available to any athlete who commits an anti-doping violation or violates…
Joe Cordina’s WBO lightweight title fight against American Abdullah Mason is off with the Welshman saying he has been denied entry to the United States.Wales’ former super-featherweight world champion Cordina, 34, had been due to take on Mason in Cleveland on Saturday, 4 July.But Cordina says the United States embassy in London turned down his visa application.In a social media post Cordina stated: “I was due to fly to the United States this week. A couple of days back I went to the US embassy in London and they basically denied me a visa.”I tried to explain certain things, and…
Kevin Owens is set to make a special appearance at WWE NXT Great American Bash this Sunday. During the June 23, 2026, episode of WWE NXT, it was announced that Kevin Owens and Busted Open Radio’s Dave LaGreca will appear at the Great American Bash on June 28 at the Performance Center. While they did not explicitly state that he would be on television, the promotion has announced that the former Universal Champion will take part in the tailgate and watch party, which will take place before and during the show, respectively. Owens has been out of action since April…
Wales manager Craig Bellamy is in advanced talks with Burnley over becoming their new head coach ahead of next season.The Clarets have approached the Football Association of Wales with a view to appointing Bellamy as Scott Parker’s successor, with the 46-year-old now understood to be in contract talks with the Championship side.While a final agreement is yet to be reached, talks have accelerated in the last 48 hours with significant progress made.BBC Sport revealed on 30 April that Bellamy was a leading contender to replace Parker after his sacking.Initial indications were that Bellamy preferred to stay on with Wales to…
WWE The Culling herd has been thinned after the forceful removal of Shawn Spears on Tuesday’s “WWE NXT.” With a future WWE Women’s Speed Championship match on the line, Izzi Dame faced Birthright’s Arianna Grace and appeared moments away from victory. Before she could capitalize with her finisher, though, an insistent high five from her Culling stablemate Shawn Spears distracted her just enough that Grace rolled her up for a three count. Grace’s win means she’ll move to challenge Wren Sinclair for the Women’s Speed Title at the “NXT” Great…
Leaving captain Maro Itoje out of next month’s titanic meeting with world champions South Africa is the correct decision, says England senior assistant coach Richard Wigglesworth.Itoje has been rested for the 4 July match against the Springboks as well as Tests against Fiji and Argentina on subsequent weekends in order to give him extended time away from rugby.The 31-year-old has exceeded World Rugby’s recommended limit of 30 matches a season in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 campaigns.He captained the British and Irish Lions in Australia last summer and will lead England into the Rugby World Cup in Australia next year.”I’m incredibly…
The fixtures for the 2026-27 English Football League season will be released at 12:00 BST on Thursday, 25 June.West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burnley, who were all relegated from the Premier League, will be joined in the Championship by Bolton Wanderers, Cardiff City and Lincoln City, with the Imps returning to the second tier for the first time in 65 years.Leicester City will play in the third tier for just the second time in their 142-year history after back-to-back relegations, and will be in League One alongside Oxford United and Sheffield Wednesday.The Foxes will face games against Bromley, who…
Jey Uso is already getting cooked online for reaching the King of the Ring finals, and now Jonathan Coachman is questioning whether WWE is making this whole thing more about The Bloodline than Oba Femi. While speaking on Two Count Tuesday, Coachman said he thought WWE might let Oba steamroll through the tournament and use the King of the Ring run to fully launch him. Instead, Jey is now in the finals, and Coachman does not understand why WWE would suddenly position him as a major world title threat again after his previous World Heavyweight Title run was cut short.…
If Scotland lose and finish with three points, there are a number of results they will need to look out for – they will want as many groups as possible with two teams finishing on fewer than three points.In Group A, if Mexico beat the Czech Republic and South Korea beat South Africa, that would leave the team in third on one point.The next best scenario would be a big South Africa win to leave South Korea in third with three points and a poor goal difference.Wins for South Africa and the Czech Republic would spell bad news for Scotland,…
Teenage forward Felicia Schroeder has joined Real Madrid in a deal that makes her “the most expensive transfer ever in women’s football”, her former club says.The Sweden international, 19, has signed a four-year deal at Real after scoring 91 goals in 128 games for Swedish club BK Hacken.Last summer, Orlando Pride made Mexico winger Lizbeth Ovalle the most expensive signing in women’s football history, with the 26-year-old moving from Tigres UANL in a deal worth $1.5m (£1.1m).Schroeder’s agent and Gothenburg-based Hacken have declined to say what the exact value of her move to Spain is.However a Hacken spokesperson told Reuters:…