After last week, Didier Bugeja travelled for 20 hours to get his race-prepared Peugeot 106 on the starting line at Gubbio in the province of Perugia, Italy over the weekend, he was well prepared for a podium finish. Bugeja raced the 4,150 metres long...
Sliema Wanderers are set to bolster their squad in the coming days as they are closing in on the signing of three players, the Times of Malta can confirm. The Blues, who last week were boosted by the news that coach Andrea Pisanu had agreed to sign a...
Malta international Josephine Grima has moved to Luxol Basketball Club, the club announced on Sunday. The centre, who has played abroad in Italy and France amongst others for a number of seasons, leaves Starlites after a successful season, pre-COVID-19...
Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou left it late to win men’s Olympic long jump gold in a thrilling competition in Tokyo on Monday. The European champion leapt a best of 8.41 metres on his sixth and final attempt to snatch victory from Cuban Juan Miguel...
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn stormed to an emphatic first Olympic track and field gold medal for Puerto Rico on Monday, powering to victory in the 100m hurdles to exorcise the ghost of her 2016 Rio Games nightmare. Five years ago, Camacho-Quinn was helped off...
Surprise French champions Lille beat Cup winners Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the Champions Trophy season curtain raiser in balmy Tel Aviv on Sunday. Portuguese midfielder Xeka scored the winner just before half-time with an unstoppable strike from...
Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel was disqualified from the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday and stripped of second place, the FIA said. Vettel’s Aston Martin car was deemed to have insufficient fuel left after the race. Lewis Hamilton of...
The Malta U-18 women’s national team won a silver at the FIBA Challengers tournament that were held in Andorra. Sandro Farrugia’s girls produced a stirring second-half fightback but were not enough to avoid a 60-45 defeat to Cyprus in the final in La...
Sliema ASC that they have appointed Alberto Fernadez Abellan as their new head coach. The Spanish coach replaces veteran Sergio Afric who was dismissed on Saturday night following the team’s victory over Valletta. “Sliema ASC are delighted to...
Lewis Hamilton missed the chance to chalk up his 100th victory but did take over the lead in the championship as France’s Esteban Ocon steered his way through a chaotic Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday to collect his first ever win. After a tactical...
Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs outshone a field of unusual suspects to claim a shock Olympic gold in the men’s 100 metres on Sunday, breaking retired Jamaican star Usain Bolt’s 13-year hold on the blue riband event. Jacobs, 26, timed a European record...
Floriana FC have their eyes firmly set on trying to sign young defender Glenn Attard, of Pembroke Athleta, the Times of Malta can confirm. In the past few weeks, the Greens, now under the stewardship of president Johann Said, have invested in...
Britain’s Charlotte Worthington won the inaugural BMX freestyle Olympic title on Sunday by landing the first-ever 360 backflip in women’s competition. Worthington scored a huge 97.50 points to take the lead and could not be caught, with favourite...
The ripples from Max Verstappen’s crash in the previous race continued Sunday morning as Honda tweeted they had replaced the engine on the championship leader’s Red Bull at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Verstappen flew out of the British Grand Prix on...
Alexander Zverev said that “nothing is bigger” than winning an Olympic gold medal after brushing aside Karen Khachanov to take the men’s singles title in Tokyo on Sunday. The fourth seed, who ended Novak Djokovic’s Golden Grand Slam bid in the...
Team Malta won the silver medal at the European Men’s Team Shield Championships that were held in Lithuania On Saturday, the Maltese golfers were up against hosts Lithuania for the gold medal and it was the latter who prevailed by two games to one. It...
Juventus are confident of signing Italian midfielder Manuel Locatelli after making a “suitable offer” to Serie A rivals Sassuolo, the Turin club’s director Pavel Nedved said on Saturday. Locatelli, 23, burst into the limelight as a replacement for...
Caeleb Dressel banked two more titles to end his Tokyo campaign with five golds Sunday, as Australia’s Emma McKeon became the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympics. The American machine earned the title of world’s fastest...
I still remember watching my first ever international football event on television. It was the 1982 World Cup in Spain. At the age of eight, I surely did not know anything about psychology or mental preparation but whenever I see footage of that...
The Olympic Games may be in full flow over in Japan but a surprising number of people seem to believe they shouldn’t be happening at all. Maybe not the majority, but there is a significant amount of commentators who think this spectator-less,...
Sliema coach Sergio Afric, who yesterday watched his side’s win from the stands, relaying instructions to Kurt Engerer, has been relieved of his duties with immediate effect. Soon after the match, a short statement by Sliema announced that Afric was no...
Morale-boosting win for Sirens in First Division
Aston Villa announced on Saturday they had agreed a deal with Bayer Leverkusen for Leon Bailey as England’s Jack Grealish has reportedly been the subject of an offer from Manchester City. According to British media, City have bid a record £100 million...
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton shrugged off boos and accusations of gamesmanship to secure the 101st pole position of his career on Saturday as he defied the heat and championship rival Max Verstappen to set the quickest lap in qualifying for...
Belinda Bencic became the first Swiss woman to win the Olympic tennis singles title with a battling three-set victory over Czech Marketa Vondrousova on Saturday. The 24-year-old Bencic edged out Vondrousova 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 on her second match point, with...
Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah successfully defended her Olympic 100m crown on Saturday, storming to victory with the second fastest time in history. Thompson-Herah raced over the line at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium in 10.61sec, with two-time champion...
Malta international Sophie Abela has successfully transferred to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division Two side the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (UCCS), the team has announced on Saturday. Continue reading this article...
Novak Djokovic hurled his racquet into the empty stands and smashed another on a net post as he lost his cool on his way to defeat against Pablo Carreno Busta in the Olympics bronze-medal match on Saturday. The 20-time major champion, whose Golden...
Former Olympic BMX racing champion Connor Fields suffered a brain haemorrhage in a crash at the Tokyo Olympics but has been moved out of critical care in hospital, officials said on Saturday. Fields, who was stretchered off the course after his heavy...
Caeleb Dressel set a new 100m butterfly world record to grab his third gold medal in Tokyo Saturday, as Katie Ledecky reinforced her dominance of distance swimming with a third Olympic 800m freestyle title. Two-time world champion Dressel was always...
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