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Cristiano Ronaldo is set to compete at his fifth FIFA World Cup this year after helping Portugal beat North Macedonia in a qualifying playoff on Tuesday.

The Iranian boys' three-man basketball team advanced to the semi-finals of the three-man basketball World Cup qualifiers with two consecutive victories against Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

On the first day of the World Ski Championships in Serbia, the Iranian athlete won a bronze medal.

In a recent article, Ellis Cashmore raised the provocative question of whether or not we should lift the ban on Russian sport instituted as a result of the invasion of Ukraine. Cashmore advances a number of sensible arguments, most importantly that this ban might turn out to be counterproductive. Instead of coaxing the Russian population to question the neo-imperialist delusions of its “great leader,” President Vladimir Putin, it might provoke an in-your-face backlash, reinforcing rather than weakening the despot’s grip on the minds of his subjects.

Sir Alex Ferguson, who managed Manchester United between 1986 and 2013, the Premier League club’s most successful period, employed an age-old trick to motivate his players. He convinced them that the whole world, including the referees, was against them and wanted them to lose. It worked. The siege mentality gave his teams a belligerent defiance, a restless energy and the never-say-die attitude that characterized Ferguson’s managerial reign.

The Beijing Paralympics close Sunday after nine days of sport that focused the world's attention on the plight of Ukraine's athletes and their calls for peace in their homeland while putting the planet's most accomplished disabled winter athletes at center stage.

A Russian gymnast has been slammed after displaying a symbol of support for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

The Beijing Winter Olympics, which were overshadowed by a U.S.-led "diplomatic boycott" over China's alleged human rights abuses, closed Sunday night, with President Xi Jinping believed to have already turned his interest toward Taiwan.

The Olympic flame has been extinguished in Beijing, with fireworks filling the evening sky, marking the end of the most locked-down games in history.

One by one the Russian teen figure skaters took the ice for the free skate at the Beijing Games, and one by one they attempted the four-revolution jumps that are common in the men’s competition.