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SPORTS

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PARALYMPICS
Apr 27, 2023
Para-athlete in Paris urges city to improve transportation system before 2024 Games
On the platform of a train station in the Paris suburbs, 25-year-old para-athlete Manel Senni braced for another daily odyssey in her wheelchair to go to basketball practice.
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BUSINESS
Apr 11, 2023
Seoul theater chain swaps screens for climbing walls to lure young Koreans
South Korea's largest multiplex movie chain operator started installing climbing walls in 2021 in one of its multiplexes, demolishing two movie screens to make way for the walls.
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MORE SPORTS
Apr 5, 2023
NCAA hit with antitrust lawsuit over student-athlete payments
The lawsuit builds off a 2021 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said it was illegal for the NCAA to have blocked schools from offering education-related benefits.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2023
Manchester United looks immune to the banking crisis
The bidding war for Manchester United, a sporting institution, bears little connection to financial reality.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 25, 2023
High-tech 'sassen' duels are an active otaku's dream
In a world of endless options for virtual entertainment, could this be the perfect marriage of tech and athletics?
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Mar 8, 2023
World Athletics renews funding for Ukrainian athletes
World Athletics announced it was renewing its Ukraine Solidarity Fund as well as taking several steps towards achieving gender equity.
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SOCCER
Mar 1, 2023
Amputee soccer player in disbelief after winning Puskas Award
Marcin Oleksy, who works full-time as an excavator operator, became the first amputee to win the prize given to the best goal of the year.
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 23, 2023
Get your sports vocabulary into shape for the start of baseball season
Preseason baseball games have begun, catch up on your sports-related vocabulary so you don't strike out in any conversations.
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TENNIS
Feb 8, 2023
Retiring great Shingo Kunieda departs after helping raise profile of wheelchair tennis
Kunieda is known as the Roger Federer of wheelchair tennis and won 50 Grand Slam titles and four Paralympic gold medals.
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Jan 25, 2023
Next milestone in Mikaela Shiffrin's sights after making World Cup history
Next in her sights is the overall record of 86 victories, held by Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 24, 2023
Ski resorts in Japan another victim of surging energy costs
While Japan has so far escaped a significant falloff in snow, rising costs mean many of the country’s smaller resorts are walking an economic tightrope.
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BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2023
Climate activists say Big Oil is taking cycling fans for a ride
Sports sponsorships have emerged as a major battleground in the push to ban fossil fuel companies from advertising their brands.
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EDITORIALS
Dec 12, 2022
After showing at World Cup, Japan is hungry for more
The Samurai Blue wins shocked many experts who expected European powerhouses to dominate their group and much of the World Cup competition.
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SOCCER / World cup
Nov 29, 2022
World Cup provides a $35 billion betting boon for bookmakers
While overall wagers on this World Cup are expected to rise 65% over the previous edition's, the tournament is only expected to generate limited activity in the United States.
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Rugby
Nov 13, 2022
Investment urged in women's rugby after stirring World Cup
World Rugby chief Bill Beaumont said a shortfall in sponsorship and broadcast rights was partly due to a lack of commitment World Rugby itself had made to the women's 15-a-side game.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2022
Liverpool going on sale highlights soccer’s financial fickleness
Liverpool F.C.'s owners need a sale after more than a decade of ownership that has delivered paltry returns.

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