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By Jill Martin, CNN CeCe Telfer, an NCAA Division II track and field champion in 2019, is not allowed to compete in the women’s 400-meter hurdles US Olympic Trials because of her eligibility regarding testosterone levels, USA Track and Field said in a statement. Telfer, a transgender woman, was entered in this week’s trials but

By Jill Martin, CNN There have now been seven no-hitters thrown this 2021 Major League Baseball season — tying the modern-era record. The latest came Thursday, when Chicago Cubs pitchers Zach Davies, Ryan Tepera, Andrew Chafin and Craig Kimbrel combined for the feat against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. This is the first

By George Ramsay, CNN Trae Young scored a career playoff high 48 points as the Atlanta Hawks beat the Milwaukee Bucks 116-113 in the opening game of the NBA Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday. The tight game swung in Atlanta’s favor when Clint Capela put his team ahead with 29.8 seconds left to play, before

By Jill Martin and Madeline Holcombe, CNN The NCAA plans to implement interim measures that would allow college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness (NIL). The measures are intended to be in place by July 1, NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a memo sent to member schools and obtained by CNN

By Eleanor Pickston and Amy Woodyatt, CNN A British police officer has been found guilty of the manslaughter of former professional soccer player Dalian Atkinson, but he was cleared of his murder, a spokesperson for Birmingham Crown Court told CNN on Wednesday. Atkinson, a former forward for English Premier League football team Aston Villa, went

By George Ramsay and Aleks Klosok, CNN European football governing body UEFA found itself on the defensive over diversity ahead of the Euro 2020 match between Germany and Hungary on Wednesday. It started with a proposal by the Munich city council to illuminate the Allianz Arena in rainbow colors for the game — a response

Piara Powar, Executive Director of Football Against Racism in Europe Network (FARE), talks to CNN about the messy situation UEFA finds itself in following its decision not to allow the Allianz Arena to be illuminated in the rainbow flag.

Despite the controversies surrounding the Tokyo Olympic Games, there are hardcore Olympic super fans who can’t wait for the Games to begin. CNN’s Blake Essig speaks to two of them.

By Emiko Jozuka, Blake Essig and Dan Campisi, CNN Kyoko Ishikawa is not your average Olympics enthusiast. Sporting a bandana, fans, whistle and traditional Japanese costume, the IT company president is a superfan who has attended every Summer Games since Barcelona 1992. She even performs a Japanese cheer routine at each one and hopes to

By Ben Church, CNN Football has a magical way of bringing people together and perhaps no country knows that more than England. After beating Czech Republic 1-0 on Tuesday, Gareth Southgate’s side finished top of Group D, setting up a potentially enticing tie against one of Germany, France, Portugal or Hungary in the round of

By George Ramsay, CNN European football governing body UEFA has declined a request to light up Munich’s Allianz Arena in rainbow colors for Wednesday’s Euro 2020 match between Germany and Hungary. The request was made following a proposal from the Munich city council in the wake of an anti-LGBTQ law passed by Hungary’s parliament last

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Senegal and Liverpool football star Sadio Mane has donated $693,000 (£500,000) to help fund the construction of a hospital in his hometown of Bambali in Senegal. The village, about 400 kilometers outside the capital city Dakar, did not previously have a hospital. Mane met with Senegalese President Macky Sall earlier

By John Sinnott, CNN In a campaign overshadowed by the health of Christian Eriksen, who suffered a cardiac arrest during Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 game, the Danish national team delivered a pulsating performance against Russia to secure an unlikely place in the tournament’s knockout stages. Having lost their opening two games, Denmark thumped Russia 4-1