Indonesia President Joko Widodo on Friday (Oct 7) said that football world governing body FIFA will not impose sanctions on the country over a stadium stampede last week that killed 131 people. In a video message, the president said Indonesia would work with FIFA to improve its management of footballContinue Reading
JAKARTA: At least 129 people were killed and around 180 injured at a football match in Indonesia after a crowd stampede during a riot, police said on Sunday (Oct 2), in what appears to be one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. The stadium had been been filled beyond capacity, said Indonesia’sContinue Reading
Nelson, 49, is described by her sponsor, The North Face, as “the most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation”. A decade ago, she became the first woman to summit both the highest mountain in the world, Everest, and the adjacent Lhotse peak within the span of 24 hours. In 2018,Continue Reading
“The road to Chengdu was indeed bumpy or a roller-coaster ride,” Steve Dainton said. The competition was pushed back once because of an upsurge in coronavirus cases driven by the Omicron variant at the beginning of the year. Then, with under a month to go, the southwestern city of ChengduContinue Reading
Eala was born in Quezon City in 2005. She took up the sport as a youngster and began competing in tournaments just before she was a teenager. Her talent attracted scouts from the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor, Spain, where the girl relocated to focus on enhancing her game. “MyContinue Reading
TOKYO: The former chairman of Tokyo Olympics sponsor Aoki Holdings has told prosecutors he gave 2 million yen (US$14,300) in cash to the head of the Games’ organising committee, former prime minister Yoshiro Mori, the Sankei daily reported. Hironori Aoki, who was arrested last month for suspected bribery involving anotherContinue Reading
TOKYO: Japanese prosecutors have arrested a former member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics board, Haruyuki Takahashi, on suspicion of bribery, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said upon Wednesday (Aug 17). Prosecutors raided Takahashi’s house in late July upon suspicions that he had made inappropriate obligations to a suit retailer. Continue Reading
Like many on the stage upon Saturday evening (Jul 30), he trains and performs around his nine-to-five work as an editor. “When I actually train hard and my body gets beaten and bruised up, the manager associated with my office would tell me to go house and rest, ” TanapolContinue Reading
TOKYO: Yoshimi Yamashita became Japan’s initial woman professional football referee on Mon (Aug 1) and said she was happy to “make a splash” as the lady prepares to create history at the World Mug. Yamashita, 36, was called in May alongside France’s Stephanie Frappart plus Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga as officialsContinue Reading
Competitive video gaming is booming worldwide, with global e-sports revenues estimated in more than US$1 billion dollars, and many think it might one day be on the Olympics. The sector is not really as big in Japan as in e-sports-crazy China and South Korea, but it is gradually starting toContinue Reading