[ad_1] BIRMINGHAM, England — Adam Peaty rebounded from Sunday’s stunning defeat at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham by winning gold in the men’s 50m breaststroke final on Tuesday. The 27-year-old world record holder suffered his first defeat in the 100m breaststroke of his eight-year senior career on Sunday as he finished in fourth place. […]
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[ad_1] A high-level Australian coach is facing 20 charges relating to the alleged sexual assault of young swimmers in the 1970s. Dick Caine, 76, was initially charged by New South Wales state police on June 22 after being arrested at his home in Sydney. Eleven more charges were added Tuesday in Sutherland Local Court. The
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[ad_1] BIRMINGHAM, England — Safety concerns forced Australian cycling officials to make a significant adjustment to the team’s racing bikes at the Commonwealth Games on Monday. Almost a year after Australian cyclist Alex Porter suffered serious facial injuries at the Tokyo Olympics when his handlebars failed during a race, a review found the equipment unsafe.
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[ad_1] IGLS, Austria — Soccer’s World Cup forced the cancellation of a luge World Cup. The International Luge Federation said Monday that what was scheduled as the opening weekend of its World Cup season – Nov. 26 and Nov. 27 in Igls, Austria – has been called off. The reason: The FIFA World Cup was
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[ad_1] MADRID — Team Astana on Monday reinstated Colombian rider Miguel Ángel López following an investigation into drug trafficking in Spain. López had been temporarily suspended by the Kazakhstani team after news he was being questioned in an investigation into the alleged activities of a Spanish doctor suspected of drug trafficking. “Based on the information
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[ad_1] South Africa’s Commonwealth Games team played a blinder on the weekend, rocketing up the medals table thanks to gold medals from swimmers Tatjana Schoenmaker, Lara van Niekerk, and Pieter Coetze, and the Blitzboks winning their Rugby Sevens final too. The four gold medals in Birmingham put South Africa in fourth place on the standings,
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[ad_1] PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES, France — Veteran rider Annemiek van Vleuten won the women’s Tour de France for the first time on Sunday after clinching the eighth and final stage in style. Van Vleuten, 39, won the stage by 30 seconds over Dutch countrywoman Demi Vollering, who also finished the race second overall. Italian
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[ad_1] BIRMINGHAM, England — Australian swimmer Emma McKeon became the Commonwealth Games’ most successful athlete during a history-making night in the pool on Sunday. The 28-year-old McKeon claimed her 11th career gold medal, spread across editions in Glasgow, the Gold Coast and Birmingham, to set a new Commonwealth Games mark for most titles. It was
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[ad_1] BIRMINGHAM, England — Adam Peaty suffered a stunning defeat in the men’s 100m breaststroke final at the 2022 Commonwealth Games on Sunday as England teammate James Wilby took gold. Peaty, who missed last month’s FINA World Championships with a broken foot, was racing in his first major final since Tokyo 2020, where he won
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[ad_1] Jul 30, 2022 Maya A. Jones Close Maya A. Jones is a writer and reporter. She joined ESPN in 2012 as a part-time researcher before moving on to cover a variety of topics within the NFL, NBA and NASCAR. She is a proud New Orleanian and HBCU graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana. MANASSAS,
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