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Australia’s Ariarne Titmus won the clash of the titans in the swimming pool at the Paris La Defense Arena. Titmus, the 23-year-old defending champion in the women’s 400m freestyle, led from start to finish to beat Canada’s Summer McIntosh by nearly a second. The USA’s Katie Ledecky, champion over the distance in Rio in 2016, took bronze, though she never really challenged the top two. Watched by Dawn Fraser, Australia’s legendary and controversial swimming legend — who had taken 400m freestyle silver behind Lorraine Crapp, her compatriot, in Melbourne in 1956 — Titmus pulled away in the second 50 after…

At some point, Croatian fans keeping an eye on proceedings in the Spain-Albania match being played simultaneously might have winced. Spain had started the game with 10 changes, yet those drafted in were competent enough to hold Albania at arm’s length and complete a third win in three group matches. A lovely pass from Dani Olmo was clinically finished off by Ferran Torres, who squandered another chance to add to the lead. David Raya in Spain’s goal made one outstanding save from Kristjan Asllani and a fine stop from Chelsea’ Armando Broja, but you always got the impression that the…

After convincing victories against Scotland (5-1) and Hungary (2-0), the hype around Germany’s football team was in overdrive. Switzerland, however, provided a big dose of reality in Frankfurt on Sunday night, with Germany extremely fortunate to escape with the 1-1 draw that saw them finish top of the group. In a team of highly rated youngsters like Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala, possessing a wily pass master like Toni Kroos, it was the journeyman veteran Niclas Fullkrug whose goal in the second minute of injury time gave Germany a share of the points. Fullkrug’s record is quite astonishing, having scored…

Euro 2024 saw its first Video Assistant Referee (VAR) controversy on Friday night when the Netherlands were denied what looked like a perfectly good goal in their match against France. The subsequent 0-0 draw ensured that both sides should make the last 16, while Austria produced a thrilling attacking display to win 3-1 and dump Poland out of the tournament. In the early kick-off, Ukraine came from behind to claim a deserved, and emotional, 2-1 win over Slovakia. In the 69th minute in Leipzig, Memphis Depay unleashed a shot from the left of the area which Mike Maignan in the…

“The challenge with Messi is not just his quality but his ability to kind of move around in the game,” said Jesse Marsch, Canada’s American coach who was once in charge at Leeds United, on the eve of his team’s Copa America opener at the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. “He doesn’t just show up in the same places all the time. Obviously, anytime he gets on the ball, the way that he can start to create combinations and really provide confidence and poise and quality for the team is very unique, right? This is what makes him the best…

This was always going to be a dogfight, especially with the Netherlands having handed Bangladesh an 87-run thrashing in the ODI World Cup last October. On Thursday afternoon at Arnos Vale in Saint Vincent, roles were reversed, with Bangladesh indebted to some sublime late-overs bowling from Rishad Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman for an uiltimately convincing 25-run victory that had them eyeing a place in the Super Eights. Bangladesh owed their total of 159-5 to a 46-ball 64 not out from Shakib Al Hasan, an emphatic response to relentless talk about his lack of form, and a sprightly 26-ball 35 from…

Mustafizur Rahman and Rashad Hossain bowled wonderful spells to set the game up for Bangladesh, but so low has the team’s confidence been in recent times that they struggled to pull off the pursuit of 125 runs for victory. With nerves fraying as the game reached a climax, the experienced Mahmudullah saw them home with two wickets and six balls to spare. Sri Lanka, having been thumped by South Africa in their opening game, now face an early exit. Having lost a bilateral series to the USA recently, Bangladesh’s lack of belief with the bat was evident at the start…

Delhi Capitals (DC) beat Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by 19 runs on Tuesday to theoretically stay alive in this year’s IPL. Practically, however, with 14 points from as many matches and a net run rate of -0.377, their season is over. And yet, DC can count on some positives and Rishabh Pant’s comeback is the biggest of them. Returning to competitive cricket after almost a year andahalf, nobody knew how Pant’s body would react. For someone who suffered a horror car accident and then spent almost a year at the National Cricket Academy doing rehab, it was not easy to…

RevSportz Comment If you’re Arsenal and Mikel Arteta, you could be forgiven for wondering what more you could have done. Since the turn of the year, Arsenal have won 15 of their 17 English Premier League matches, and drawn at Manchester City, while scoring an incredible 52 goals. That run, which has seen 11 clean sheets and just eight goals conceded, has included victories over Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. But the sporting universe frequently deals in karma, and it’s quite likely that their solitary defeat in 2024 will extend the club’s wait for a league title to…

RevSportz Comment There are lines from Dire Straits’ Romeo and Juliet that go: ‘When you gonna realise, It was just that the time was wrong…’ That refrain, from a song released nearly a decade before Marco Reus was born in Dortmund in 1989, could well form the soundtrack for Reus’s career. But maybe, just maybe, the final chapter could yet have the happy ending that has eluded him. Paris Saint-Germain once again played target practice with the crossbar and post during the Champions League semi-final second leg at the Parc des Princes, but could have few complaints about the 1-0…