Category: Sports

TOKYO: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics cannot be delayed beyond the year-long postponement already forced by the coronavirus outbreak, the organising committee’s president has warned in comments published on Thursday. Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori said there is “absolutely no” chance of postponing the Games beyond their rescheduled July 23, 2021 opening, according to Kyodo News […]

DUBAI: Planning for this year’s men’s Twenty20 World Cup and next year’s women’s 50-over World Cup is going ahead even though cricket remains suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday. The ICC hosted a Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) meeting with the CEOs of the 12 full members and […]

LONDON: Arsenal’s players and coaching staff have agreed a 12.5% salary cut due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making the London-based club the first in the Premier League to announce such a measure. Several Premier League clubs have furloughed employees since the new coronavirus outbreak while others, such as West Ham United and Southampton, have said […]

PARIS: Confusion reigns in French football as to whether the league should resume amid the coronavirus pandemic. The co-president of the French professional footballers’ union called for the league to stop, while coaches in the top two divisions have expressed diverging opinions whether the 10 remaining games should be played. “It is legitimate to collectively […]

KARACHI: Former Pakistan fast bowler AAaqib Javed on Tueday said he fears for the future of Pakistan cricket and it is the need of the hour that the players for a players association to protect their’ rights, especially keeping in view the uncertain situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic In an exclusive interview in program […]

TOKYO: An open conflict broke out Tuesday between Tokyo Olympic organisers and the International Olympic Committee over who will pay for the unprecedented year-long postponement. Tokyo spokesman Masa Takaya said the organising committee has asked the Switzerland-based IOC to remove a comment from its website suggesting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had agreed that Japan […]

KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board’s Chief Executive Wasim Khan has termed the upcoming ICC Chief Executives’ Committee meeting as ‘extremely critical’ as a wide-range of topics will be discussed with the other board members on Thursday. “The purpose of the meeting is to gain a full understanding of the members’ priorities during this time and to […]

ISLAMABAD: Former England Skipper Nasser Hussain has picked Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar among the four cricketers whom he would pay to watch. The other three cricketers include India’s Virat Kohli, West Indian Brian Lara and his own countryman David Gower. About Saeed, Nasser said that his strokes on the off-side had lot of grace and elegance. […]

BERLIN: A Swiss prosecutor investigating corruption in football met in secret with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, German and Swiss media alleged Friday, further fuelling allegations of collusion between football’s world governing body and Swiss investigators. Citing unnamed sources, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and Switzerland’s Luzerner Zeitung suggested that Cedric Remund, 38, was the previously […]

LONDON: European football’s governing body UEFA is mulling to continue the Champions League matches suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic on August 7-8, after the domestic leagues have reached their conclusion. According to a report on Sky Sports Italia, the first of the remaining matches in the Round of 16 will be played on August […]