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Both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin have expressed reservations about a proposed ceasefire in Ukraine during the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. The proposal, first mentioned by French President Emmanuel Macron and later discussed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, aims to halt hostilities during the Games. Zelensky told the online news site Ukrainska Pravda on Friday that the details of the initiative were not clear to him. He highlighted the risks of Russia potentially using the ceasefire to move military equipment closer to Ukraine then. Zelens...
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New body World Boxing hopes the sport will be represented at the 2028 Olympic Games after all following a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Last year, the IOC withdrew its recognition of the IBA amateur boxing federation due to governance, finance and ethical issues and an IBA appeal was recently rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Qualification for July and August's Paris Games is in the hands of a task force appointed by the IOC, as was the case at the last Olympics in Tokyo. Boxing is not currently on the programme for Los Angeles 2028 but World Boxin...
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Football Olympic champion Leonie Maier of Germany will end her professional career in summer, her club Hoffenheim said on Tuesday. Maier won gold with Germany at the 2016 Rio Olympics and also the women's Euro 2013. "Everyone who knows me know what football means to me. The decision was anything but easy. However, the amount of injuries have slowed me down repeatedly and, unfortunately, they no longer make playing football at the top level possible," she said. The 31-year-old moved to Hoffenheim last summer from the English Women's Super League. Maier previously played in the Bundesliga for Ba...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine more than two years ago, has said that he is open to a ceasefire during the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed in an interview with Ukrainian television that Paris would ask Moscow to agree to a truce for the duration of the Games, set for July 26 to August 11. In a press conference following his projected re-election on Sunday evening in a vote that was considered neither free nor fair, Putin said he so far not heard of such a proposal by Macron. "In any case, w...
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Germany's men's handball players have secured their ticket to the Paris Olympic Games. Alfred Gislason's team won the decisive game against Austria 34-31 and finished the qualifying tournament in Hanover in second place behind Croatia. In front of 10,099 spectators, Julian Köster and Renars Uscins were the best scorers with eight goals each for Germany, who last won an Olympic medal in 2016 with bronze. Gislason's future has also been clarified thanks to the qualification for the July and August Games. The 64-year-old Icelander will continue to coach the German team until the 2027 home World C...
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