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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — At just 12 years old, China’s Yu Zidi is already one of the fastest swimmers in the world. Her times are so quick in fact, that she is currently competing – and impressing – at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. World Aquatics has a minimum age requirement of

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Almost everything in the summer blockbuster “F1 the Movie” is fictional, but the protagonist’s spine-chilling origin story really happened exactly as depicted on screen. Brad Pitt’s character Sonny Hayes is haunted by a high-speed crash which initially cost him his Formula One dream, but for the man who survived

CNN By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — The NFL is fining more than 100 players and approximately two dozen team employees for selling their Super Bowl LIX tickets above face value, the league confirmed on Friday. Chief NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told CNN on Friday that the players would be fined one-and-a-half times the amount

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — The NFL is fining more than 100 players and approximately two dozen team employees for selling their Super Bowl LIX tickets above face value, the league confirmed on Friday. Chief NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told CNN on Friday that the players would be fined one-and-a-half times the amount of

By Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — Major League Soccer announced Friday that Inter Miami stars Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba will be suspended for the team’s next match against FC Cincinnati on Saturday. The suspension comes after Messi and Alba skipped the MLS All-Star Game without permission earlier this week in Austin, Texas. “Per league

By Amy Woodyatt, Coy Wire, CNN (CNN) — With the swimming portion of the World Aquatics Championships approaching, all eyes will be on Katie Ledecky, the most decorated female swimmer in history, as she goes head to head with teen sensation Summer McIntosh. Ledecky, who has nine Olympic gold medals and a staggering 21 World

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Tour de France organizers have shortened Stage 19 of the competition to avoid a herd of cows which have suffered an outbreak of disease. Organizers say that cattle near the Col des Saisies have experienced an outbreak of contagious nodular dermatitis, resulting in the culling of livestock and restricting

By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Kansas basketball head coach Bill Self underwent a heart procedure at Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Thursday after he “felt unwell and experienced some concerning symptoms,” the school said. The 62-year-old had two stents inserted to treat blocked arteries in his heart. “The procedure went very well, and he is

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — There were no fewer than a dozen cameras positioned just outside the men’s restroom on the third floor of the Hilton Charlotte Uptown on Thursday afternoon. A similar scene played out near a closed conference room door. Even more lined the hotel breezeway, waiting for a 73-year-old rookie college

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a long-anticipated executive order on college sports, an attempt to provide federal guidance to the wild world of big money that has transformed collegiate athletics in recent years. The executive order signed by Trump said it is executive branch policy “that third-party,

WPIX, BAY-NEWS-9-SPECTRUM-NEWS, CNN By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Professional wrestler Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, died on Thursday at the age of 71, according to World Wrestling Entertainment. Bollea is widely recognized as the biggest wrestling star of all time and helped WWE become the behemoth that it is today. In the

CNN, WPIX, BAY NEWS 9, WWE, HULK HOGAN, GETTY IMAGES, LIFETIME, POOL, THE A-TEAM, FROM UNIVERSIAL TELEVISION, THE A-TEAM/FROM UNIVERSIAL TELEVISION By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Professional wrestler Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, died on Thursday at the age of 71, according to World Wrestling Entertainment. Bollea is widely recognized as the

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Jannik Sinner has reappointed fitness coach Umberto Ferrara to his coaching team having previously dropped Ferrara during Sinner’s recent doping suspension. Sinner served a three-month ban earlier this year after twice testing positive for banned substance Clostebol, an anabolic steroid, in March last year. The Italian previously escaped a

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For all Abdelrahman Elaraby’s success as an athlete, swimming is a passion simultaneously pursued intensely and held at arm’s length. “You’ll never find me talking about swimming outside the pool,” the 25-year-old Egyptian told CNN Sports. Few people even knew that he had broken the African record in the

By Associated Press Zurich (AP) — Aitana Bonmatí scored in extra time to send Spain to its first-ever Women’s European Championship final with a 1-0 win over Germany on Wednesday, setting up a repeat of the 2023 World Cup title match. A stubborn Germany performance had seen it take the world champions to extra time

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Rute Cardoso, the wife of Diogo Jota, has paid tribute to her late husband, marking a month since the couple got married. Liverpool and Portugal star Jota died in a car crash in Spain on July 3 at the age of 28 along with his 25-year-old brother André Silva

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Venus Williams rolled back the years to produce a brilliant display as she eliminated fellow American Peyton Stearns 6-3, 6-4 to reach the round of 16 of the DC Open. Williams, 45, becomes the oldest player to win a singles match on the WTA Tour since Martina Navratilova won

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — England has made late comebacks its calling card at the 2025 Women’s Euros and produced another dramatic finish in its 2-1 victory over Italy in the semifinals in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday. The Lionesses had trailed most of the match after Barbara Bonansea’s first half goal on 33 minutes

By Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee has pledged to follow a Trump administration order by banning transgender women athletes in an update to its athlete safety policy – falling in line with other groups that have banned transgender women from sports competition in the women’s category. Trump’s “Keeping Men