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Olympics-India's icy indifference to winter sport frustrates trailblazer Keshavan

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Twenty seven years since his Winter Olympics debut with a borrowed sled in Nagano, Shiva Keshavan cannot help feeling that the more things change, the more they remain the same.

Football

Soccer-Bayern keeper Urbig eyes another title after winning Bundesliga

BERLIN (Reuters) -Bayern Munich keeper Jonas Urbig celebrated his first Bundesliga title on Sunday with his team sitting eight points clear at the top with two games left to play.

Football

Leave running football clubs to those who are capable, says Sports Ministers

PETALING JAYA: Football should not be used as a platform to cling to power, says Hannah Yeoh.

Rugby

Rugby-Australia coach Schmidt says O'Connor in flyhalf mix for Lions series

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -James O'Connor is in the Wallabies' selection frame and his experience could prove useful in a squad of relatively young flyhalves, head coach Joe Schmidt said on Tuesday.

Football

Soccer-Former Socceroo Milligan to coach Newcastle Jets

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Newcastle Jets have named former Australia defender Mark Milligan as head coach of the A-League strugglers, replacing the sacked Rob Stanton in a widely telegraphed appointment.

Football

Soccer-French minister apologises to Liverpool fans for 2022 Champions League final blame

(Reuters) -France's former interior minister Gerald Darmanin has apologised to Liverpool fans for wrongly blaming them for the chaos at the Stade de France during the 2022 Champions League final in Paris.

Other Sports

Olympics-Brisbane 2032 welcomes Jaworski as new IOC point person

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Brisbane 2032 Olympics chief Andrew Liveris has welcomed the appointment of former show jumper Mikaela Cojuangco Jaworski as the new chair of the coordination commission for the Games.

Football

Soccer-Former Argentina defender Luis Galvan dies aged 77

(Reuters) -Former Argentina defender Luis Galvan, a member of the team that won the 1978 World Cup, died on Monday at the age of 77, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) said.

Golf

Golf-Australia's Smylie beaming with PGA Championship exemption

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Rising talent Elvis Smylie has been given a late exemption to the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow after claiming the Australasian tour order of merit in 2024-25.

Cricket

Cricket-Coach Vettori rues home woes after Hyderabad's IPL playoff exit

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vettori felt the slow pitches on their home ground did not suit their free-scoring batters after the side crashed out of the playoff race of this year's Indian Premier League.

Badminton

Pearly-Thinaah likely to decide career path by end of next week

PETALING JAYA: Women's doubles shuttlers Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah are likely to make a decision on their contract renewal with the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) by the end of next week

Other Sports

Volleyball-Suntory and Marvelous give Osaka both titles in inaugural SV.League

TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Olympic champion Dmitriy Muserskiy hit the winning points as Suntory Sunbirds Osaka took out the inaugural men's title in the first season of Japan's ambitious SV.League on Monday.

Golf

Ashley out to bring good vibes to Arizona after third place win in Vegas

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian pro golfer Ashley Lau is feeling her swing once again after finishing in joint third at the Reliance Matrix Championship in Las Vegas.

Athletics

Lessons to learn for Fazri despite winning race

PETALING JAYA: National middle distance runner Wan Mohd Fazri Wan Zahari (pic) was two seconds slower than his personal best but he knows every start is a lesson for better things.

Other Sports

Short time in Podium Programme proves wonders for Aleena-Ain

PETALING JAYA: A short time in the Podium Programme was good enough to help lawn bowlers Aleena Ahmad Nawawi and Nur Ain Nabilah Tamizi win big in the women's pairs event at the Asian Championships in the Philippines.

Motorsport

Hakim continues hot show, and he is only warming up

PETALING JAYA: Rising racer Hakim Danish Ramli has been setting the track ablaze with three consecutive podium finishes this season so far, and the signs indicate there's more to come.

Badminton

Tze Yong eyeing comeback in Taiwan with ‘heart full of hope and fire’

PETALING JAYA: Starting from scratch again is tough but men's singles shuttler Ng Tze Yong (pic) is out to work his way up as he prepares to make his comeback in the World Tour in the Taiwan Open starting today in Taipei.

Badminton

BAM welcome new ideas to raise women’s standard, Pearly-Thinaah’s status still pending

PETALING JAYA: The presence of Wong Mew Choo as a motivator for the women's singles players in the national team will do wonders.

Badminton

Hazwan is one of a kind as he mixes up his coaching role

PETALING JAYA: Transitioning from coaching men's singles shuttlers to mixed doubles is hard for some people but not Hazwan Jamaluddin.

Football

Terengganu deny claims of unpaid salary by Mamut

PETALING JAYA: Terengganu have firmly denied allegation that the club had failed to pay striker Ivan Mamut's salary for nearly nine months, calling the claims baseless and misleading.