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Force India goes into administration
The Force India Formula One team went into administration, as expected, late Friday evening in London following a High Court hearing brought by a winding-up order. Deputy team principal Bob Fernley confirmed the action, telling reporters that an "administrator was appointed by the court for Force India this evening". There was no further immediate comment from the team, which, on Friday, had said it hoped to resolve its critical cash-flow difficulties with the help of new investment, while under administration. The team's senior driver Sergio Perez on Thursday said the situation was "critical". The Mexican driver is reportedly owed more than four million dollars while engine suppliers Mercedes are owed more than 15 million dollars. The team's second driver Esteban Ocon, who is under contract until the end of 2019, is expected to leave the team to join Renault for next year in a transfer that may help alleviate the problems. Both drivers and the rest of the team are in Budapest ...
Chennaiyin FC appoints Hitchcock as goalkeeping coach
Indian Super League champions Chennaiyin FC has appointed Englishman Kevin Hitchcock as goalkeeping coach ahead of the 2018-19 season. The 55-year-old Hitchcock, who was at Birmingham City as goalkeeping coach last season, replaces compatriot Tony Warner, said a CFC press release. Hitchcock joins new assistant coach Paul Groves in the Chennaiyin coaching staff, having worked with him at Birmingham last season, where the latter was the first-team coach. "I had a great working experience in Qatar and I have heard very positive things about Indian football and ISL, so I am looking forward to it," he said. The Englishman said he was excited to work with head coach John Gregory and his staff which also includes Groves. "Chennaiyin FC has three top-class goalkeepers with two of them fresh signings. I can't wait for the start of pre-season and help the club defend the ISL title," Hitchcock said. Gregory said Hitchcock is a highly reputed goalkeeping coach in England who also ...
Rashid has maturity to deal with challenges of red-ball cricket: Bairstow
England wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow feels that leg-spinner Adil Rashid will be able to put aside the rumblings his selection to the England Test team has generated and continue his form from where he left in the one-dayers against India. Rashid was selected for the first of five Tests against India despite quitting red-ball cricket ahead of the 2018 county season and having not played a first-class game since September. Former England captain Michael Vaughan dubbed it "ridiculous" before Rashid hit back. Another former skipper Nasser Hussian felt Rashid's Test recall sets a dangerous precedent for county cricket. Legendary all-rounder Ian Botham had, however, termed these criticisms unnecessary. Bairstow, who is Rashid's team-mate in Yorkshire, refused to be drawn into the controversy but said the leg-spinner must be excited to have got the England call-up for the Test series starting on August 1 in Birmingham. The biggest honour you can have is to go out and play Test ...
Liverpool coach Klopp defends Alisson transfer fee
Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp has defended his club's transfer policy ahead of the new season.
Bremen sign Dutch international Klaassen
Werder Bremen have signed midfielder Davy Klaassen from English Premier League outfit Everton FC, both clubs have announced.
Osorio steps down as Mexico coach
Juan Carlos Osorio has stepped down as Mexico coach, less than a month after leading the national football team to the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup in Russia.
FC Goa launch women's team
Indian Super League side FC Goa today launched its official women's team, ahead of the second Vedanta Goa Women's Football League. The club, which was a part of the draft that took place at the Goa Football Association office in Panjim on July 25, are only the second ISL club, after FC Pune City, to field a women's team. The tournament is slated to begin on August 14 with eight teams expected to participate. Grassroots coach, Naresh Virnodkar has been handed the role as coach of the team as training for the league has begun at the Chowgule Sports Centre in Margao. "The women's team will be built in the same image and with the same principles as the men's team. The club will work extremely hard towards developing and producing talented women footballers and hope to emulate the successful women that represented the national team from Goa in the 1970's," FC Goa Technical Director, Derrick Pereira, said. The club has been focused towards promoting the sport for both men and women along ...
IAAF allows two Russians to compete as international athletes
Two Russian athletes - 1,500m runner Yegor Nikolayev and 400m runner Alexander Skorobogatko - have been allowed to compete internationally as neutrals, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said in a statement.
Russia extend contract with national football coach Cherchesov
The Russian Football Union has announced a new contract with Stanislav Cherchesov, the head coach of the national football team for two more years.
CSKA Moscow win Russian Super Cup
FC CSKA Moscow has won the Russian Super Cup, defeating FC Lokomotiv Moscow 1-0.
Russia working hard to restore IAAF membership
The All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) has been working hard to implement the criteria the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) set for its reinstatement, Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov said.
Carvajal shares football tips with youngsters
Real Madrid and Spain defender Dani Carvajal wound up his visit to Panama by joining aspiring football players for practice at a facility in this capital's affluent Costa del Este neighborhood.
Bautista enters Swiss Open semis
Second-seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain defeated Japan's Taro Daniel 7-5, 6-1 here to reach the semi-finals of the Swiss Open tennis tournament.
Sourabh, Kuhoo-Rohan enter Russia Open final
Former national champion Sourabh Verma stormed into his first final of the season after defeating compatriot Mithun Manjunath in straight games at the USD 75,000 Russia Open Tour Super 100 tournament here today. The 25-year-old Indian, who is on a comeback trail after recovering from injuries, beat Mithun 21-9 21-15 in just 31 minutes to set up a title clash with Japan's Koki Watanabe tomorrow. Young mixed doubles pair of Kuhoo Garg and Rohan Kapoor also continued their impressive run to enter the summit clash after beating Malaysian combination of Chen Tang Jie and Yen Wei Peck here in a three-game thriller. The second seeded Indian combo notched up a 21-19 11-21 22-20 win over the unseeded Malaysian pair in 58 minutes. They would now face Vladimir Ivanov of Russia and Min Kyung Kim of Korea in the finals. Men's doubles pair of Arun George and Sanyam Shukla, however, couldn't cross the semifinal hurdle as they lost 15-21 19-21 to second seeded local combo of Konstantin Abramov and ...
Guptill hits 102 off just 38 balls in T20 Blast
New Zealand's Martin Guptill struck 102 from just 38 balls as Worcestershire thrashed Northamptonshire by nine wickets in English county cricket's Twenty20 Blast. Set a targe of 188, visitors Worcestershire won with nearly seven overs to spare, with Joe Clarke making an unbeaten 61 off 33 balls. Clarke and Guptill put on 162 in 10 overs. It did not take long for the experienced Guptill, who hit 12 fours and seven sixes, to get into his stride. He got going in a Richard Gleeson over that cost 22 runs, a flick over midwicket for six, two hits down the ground for four and a flick wide of short-fine leg. South Africa's Rory Kleinveldt replaced Gleeson and he too gave up an over costing 22 as Guptill went to fifty in 20 balls. Guptill swept left-arm spinner Graeme White to deep-backward square leg, only for Seekkuge Prasanna to step over the boundary before a second slog-sweep cleared deep midwicket. Later, he drove Prasanna over long-on for six and wide of long-off for four as Guptill ...
4-year-old Saanvi secures second spot in National U-7 chess tournament
Four-year-old Saanvi Aggarwal from Chandigarh has secured the second position with four points in the U-5 category at the 32nd National U-7 Open Girls Chess Championship.The young champ Saanvi while speaking to ANI, said, "My parents taught me and made me practice on the computer. With time I learnt all levels and started winning them."Meanwhile, Saanvi's coach Nitin Rathore believes that she has a lot of potentials to win Asian and World titles in future."She has a lot of potentials to win Asian and World titles in the future. She perfectly knows all the attacking moves in chess," he said.The tournament was organised by the United Karnataka Chess Association under the aegis of the All India Chess Federation in Karnataka's Tumkur from July 16-24.After securing a place in U-5 category, Saanvi has made herself eligible for the Asian Youth U-6 Chess Championship, which is going to place in 2019.In May this year, the young chess player had bagged the U-7 Chandigarh Chess Championship to ..
IAAF maintains Russia's athletics ban over doping
The governing body of world athletics maintained Russia's ban from track and field over mass doping, just 10 days before the start of the European Championships in Berlin. "The IAAF Council unanimously adopted the resolution that RUSAF (the Russian athletics federation) not be reinstated at this time," said Rune Andersen, head of the IAAF's Russian taskforce team. Andersen, however, said there had been "a lot of meaningful engagement from RUSAF", which has made "significant improvement" in meeting reinstatement requirements. "In some cases they have gone above and beyond what is required," the Norwegian said before adding that the conclusion remained that RUSAF not be reinstated at this time with further progress still to be made. Andersen said that for Russia to be reinstated, ideally at the IAAF Council's next meeting in Monaco in December after a WADA meet in September, three demands must be met. Firstly, RUSAF must pay for the costs incurred by the IAAF in the wake of the doping ..
Isner turns tables on Zverev to reach Atlanta semis
American John Isner showed why he is playing some of the best tennis of his career, beating Mischa Zverev 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 in the quarter-finals of the Atlanta Open. Isner needed one hour and 37 minutes on Stadium Court to oust Zverev and reverse a run of defeats to the seventh seeded German. Zverev had won all three of his matches against Isner last year. But the 33-year-old Isner has been rising up the rankings as he levelled their career head-to-head rivalry at 3-3. "It was a weird match. The balls were bouncing everywhere, it was tough to control. I was happy to get through in three sets," Isner said. The 6-foot-10 Isner is at number nine in the ATP world rankings. He reached a career-best No. 8 last week after making it to the semis of Wimbledon. Isner will next face fourth seed Matthew Ebden, who breezed past Marcos Baghdatis 6-3, 6-2 in one hour, 12 minutes. The Aussie is into his second semi-final of the season, following a run to the final four at the Libema Open. Isner is now .
City players cut short World Cup break - Guardiola
Manchester City's World Cup players have decided to return to training early and help aid manager Pep Guardiola's attempt to defend the Premier League title. The English champions had 16 players playing in Russia with the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Vincent Kompany, John Stones, Kyle Walker , Fabian Delph, Raheem Sterling not due back until next weekend. All players were given three weeks off from the moment their involvement in the tournament ended. But Guardiola revealed that only two of his squad will not be available for the Community Shield season opener against Chelsea on August 5. Guardiola, speaking ahead of City's final match of the US tour against Bayern Munich in Miami today, said: "Most of them are coming back. We have just four or five days to prepare for the first final (Community Shield) so we have to adapt. "Some of them are coming back before, some are coming back after the final. "We need players for the final but if they are not coming back we'll play with the guys ...
Girona FC run riot against Melbourne City
La Liga outfit Girona FC showcased their quality as they cruised to a landslide 6-0 victory over A-League club Melbourne City FC in the second match of the Toyota Yaris La Liga World football tournament here on Friday.