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North Korea said Friday it has decided not to participate in the upcoming Beijing Olympics and Paralympics, blaming the United States' attempts to prevent "the successful opening of the Winter Games."

Football violence has broken out for the second time this season in France. Crowd trouble forced the French Cup last-64 tie between Lyon and host Paris FC to be called off after half-time on Friday.

Japan is considering not sending Cabinet ministers to next year's Beijing Olympics in line with a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott amid rising criticism over China's human rights record, government and ruling coalition sources said Saturday.

Britain is in purgatory. Its latest racial crisis is as grave, urgent and compelling as the upheaval that followed the urban riots of the 1980s and the soul-searching over the report on the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1999. But the latest scandal that has engulfed one of Britain’s favorite sports and one of its best sports clubs comes only 18 months after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, in the US, that has reverberated around the world, giving impetus to the Black Lives Matter movement.

F OOTBALL NOW is a new show that brings to light some of the biggest issues, challenges, and debates within the global game. Football’s relationship with technology hasn’t been the best historically. Just a few years ago, David de Gea’s transfer to Real Madrid fell through because the fax machine was too slow. But now, there has been a breakthrough as cryptocurrency finds its way into the sports world.

Lionel Messi won the Ballon d'Or for the seventh time on Monday, extending his record, as Alexia Putellas became the third winner of the women's award.

Mehdi Taremi’s spectacular strike against Chelsea at the UEFA Champions League on 13 April 2021 has been nominated by FIFA in a race for Puskás Award 2021.

Twelve Tory MPs, including two Cabinet ministers, cast proxy votes while attending Euro 2020 football games at Wembley, raising fresh questions about the system used in the Commons throughout the pandemic.

Italy must go into the World Cup qualifying play-offs after being held to a goalless draw by a brilliant Northern Ireland side at Windsor Park.

The German Triathlon Union (DTU) has today agreed an exclusive five-year marketing rights partnership with Infront, the international sports marketing agency.