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Video shows Chinese fans yelling racist slurs at American basketball player – CNN Video Stay Updated on Developing Stories View in App Live TV American basketball player Sonny Weems has been subjected to the racial abuse from fans while playing in China, as shown in a video circulating on social media. CNN’s David Culver reports.

• Female athletes were the target of 87% of all abuse • 65% of all abusive posts warrant intervention from social media platforms In line with its commitment to making athletics a safe and welcoming environment for everyone, World Athletics today publishes findings of a study conducted during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to identify […]

New rules will also make it difficult for athletes like two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya to compete. Transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in female track and field events regardless of their levels of testosterone, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says. No female transgender athlete who had gone through male puberty would […]

Video produced by Neil Akinyemi. Leaders from across the sport industry came together on Saturday 25 March to deliver Loughborough University’s student-led initiative the Black in Sport Summit (BISS). The sold-out event – backed by Europe’s leading media and entertainment company, Sky – was hosted at the iconic London Stadium in Stratford and brought […]

Muhammad Ali For much of the late 19th and early 20th century, Black athletes were subjected to severe racial, social, and economic challenges. But trailblazers like Althea Gibson and Jackie Robinson shattered those unjust barriers, opening up the floodgates for today’s stars to thrive. African-American athletes have since continued to break feats and dominate the […]

Jordan Chiles – artistic gymnastics Biles’ absence allows Jordan Chiles to return to Team USA colours in Santiago. With 11 consecutive national team appearances, a record for U.S. women, Chiles is heading to her first Pan American Games. Having stepped in at short notice for Biles at Tokyo 2020, where she helped the United States […]

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Oliver Medrano, 35, said his 9-year-old, Sofía, had asked for tickets. The two gave up their seats close to the stage and watched instead from the bleachers after the girl’s mother protested. “They say the songs are too war-driven,” Medrano said. Sofía said she had become hooked on “El Belicón” (“The Belligerent”), Peso Pluma’s song […]

Jen Trejo holds a photo of her son Christopher as she is comforted outside the Supreme Court Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Washington. Her son was 32 when he died and she said about Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, “You can’t just kill my child and just pay a fine.” The […]

At the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo issued a cautionary statement to Nvidia, urging them to stop redesigning AI chips for China that maneuver around export restrictions. “We cannot let China get these chips. Period,” she said. “We’re going to deny them our most cutting-edge […]