TOKYO: International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach referred to his Japanese hosts as Chinese when he appeared in public on Tuesday for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week...
“Our common target is safe and secure games for everybody; for the athletes, for all the delegations, and most importantly also for the Chinese people — Japanese people,” Bach said, catching his mistake quickly...
Lt-Gen Asim Bajwa, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), on Wednesday refuted allegations which appeared in a Reuters interview on March 29 titled “Pakistani property tycoon eyes media move to protect his name”...
The Reuters interview had misquoted Malik Riaz’s ties with Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif...
Journalists working for Agence France-Presse and Reuters were among three reporters being held by Sudanese authorities on Thursday a day after they were arrested covering demonstrations against rising food prices that were dispersed by police...
Idris Ali was unreachable after the protest and authorities informed AFP on Thursday that he had been arrested along with two other journalists, including one working for Reuters, and was...
ATLANTA: Reigning PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas eagled the par-five 18 for a 66 on Friday, leaving him tied with England’s Paul Casey and Webb Simpson at the halfway point of the Tour Championship...
The trio is at seven-under 133 after the second round of the fourth and final tournament of the PGA Tour’s 2017 playoffs...
CHARLOTTE: Justin Thomas capped off a major season that belonged to an aggressive new breed of fearless young Americans when he stormed to a two-stroke victory at the PGA Championship on Sunday...
At 24, he followed in the footsteps of then-23-year-old Jordan Spieth’s British Open triumph and the U...
DUESSELDORF: Reigning champion Chris Froome wasted no time flexing his muscles at the Tour de France as he powered to sixth place in a treacherous opening time trial won superbly by Team Sky colleague Geraint Thomas on Saturday...
While it was a great start for Team Sky, with Thomas, three-times champion Froome, Vasil Kiryienka and Michal Kwiatkowski all in the top eight of the 198 riders to start, Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde’s Tour...
VITTEL: Race leader Geraint Thomas and sprint king Mark Cavendish were brought down in separate crashes as Frenchman Arnaud Demare won a dramatic finish to the Tour de France fourth stage on Tuesday...
Briton Thomas, who had warned on Monday that he just wanted to stay clear of trouble on the 207...
ERIN: Justin Thomas carded the best ever round at a US Open but still surrendered the lead to fellow American Brian Harman on a helter-skelter Saturday at Erin Hills...
Thomas, decked out in shocking fluorescent pink pants, produced a no less electric performance signing for nine-under 63 to equal the lowest numerical score in a major and the best ever in the 117-year history of the US Open in relation to par...
KUNSHAN: Indonesia beat South Korea 3-1 on Friday to reach the Thomas Cup final and raise hopes of their first victory in 14 years in a competition they once dominated...
But Indonesia rallied in the following match, with Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan securing a 21-15, 21-12 win over Lee Yong-dae and Yoo Yeon-seong...
KUNSHAN: Denmark became the first European country to lift the Thomas Cup on Sunday, winning the final 3-2 against Indonesia, the most successful nation in the history of the biennial men’s badminton team championship...
Hans-Kristian Vittinghus led the Danes to victory in the fifth and final match of the tie on the back of strong singles performances from fourth-ranked Viktor Axelsen and world number five Jan O...
GAP: Britain’s Geraint Thomas survived a terrifying crash on a hair-raising descent as Ruben Plaza won Monday’s 16th stage of the Tour de France...
Chris Froome finished in an elite group of favourites to maintain his 3min 10sec lead over Nairo Quintana but his teammate Thomas came close to disaster on the 201km ride from Bourg-de-Peage to Gap...
WITH a hardback edition that is almost 700 pages long and weighs more than a kilogramme, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century possesses a daunting physical presence that can perhaps partially explain why it has the dubious distinction of being a book that, despite topping multiple bestseller lists when it was published last year, has largely remained unread...
This is not surprising since Capital is not an easy read;...
L’ALPE D’HUEZ: Geraint Thomas became the first yellow jersey wearer since disgraced Lance Armstrong to triumph on the legendary Alpe d’Huez after a thrilling finale to a punishing Tour de France 12th stage on Thursday...
But the Welshman, along with team-mate Chris Froome, was met by a chorus of boos and jeers at the finish as Team Sky’s domination of the race continued...
ESPELETTE: Britain’s Geraint Thomas virtually secured his maiden Tour de France triumph after finishing third in the penultimate stage time trial in the Basque country on Saturday...
Thomas, of Team Sky, held a 2min 05sec overnight lead on Dutch rival Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb) ahead of the 31km race against the clock from Saint-Pee-Sur-Nivelle to Espelette...
Thomas Bach, in his message at the first Athletes Forum 2020 here on Saturday, said he is delighted at the organisation of athlete centric forum and congratulated National Olympic Committee, Pakistan’s Athletes Commission for the historic gathering of athletes...
“Athletes are not only at the heart, athletes are the heart of our Olympic community,” said Bach and appreciated Pakistan for taking the lead in communicating about the...