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REUTERS Jill Stephenson lost her only child Ben Kopp, a 21-year-old U.S. Army Ranger, when he was shot during a 2009 firefight with Taliban forces in Afghanistan. For her, the militant group's takeover of Kabul this weekend came as a gut punch..
QNA Qatar's national team won a second gold after the junior U-13 team crowned champions in their age group at the Arab Table Tennis Championships, currently being held in the capital Amman. The Qatari team defeated its Tunisian counterpart..
SKY NEWS Parchment went back to find the woman and handed her the Olympic gold medal he may not have won were it not for her kindness. An Olympic champion from Jamaica tracked down the woman who gave him a taxi fare after he was in da...
REUTERS A member of Japan's gold medal-winning softball team will have her medal replaced with a fresh one after the mayor of her hometown chomped down on the original, Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Thursday, following an outcry on social medi..
TOKYO : Neeraj Chopra's soaring javelin did not just earn India their first Olympic gold in athletics on Saturday, it also meant that the contingent will return from Tokyo with seven medals, their biggest Games haul ever. The world's secon..
Feryal Ashraf woke up on Sunday morning as the most famous athlete in Egypt. Sorry, Mo Salah. On Saturday, she claimed gold for Egypt after beating Irina Zaretska 2-0 in the final of the women’s karate kumite +61 kg competition at Tokyo&rsqu..
Saudi karate star Tarek Hamdi was denied a Tokyo 2020 Olympic title on Saturday by a bizarre refereeing decision — but as far as his fans are concerned, his silver medal was as good as gold. Hamdi, 23, was 4-1 up in the Nippon Budokan arena ..
REUTERS American rider Jennifer Valente won the gold medal in the Olympic women's ominium on Sunday, the final event of the track cycling programme. Japan's Yumi Kajihara took the silver medal with Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands the br..
REUTERS Kellie Anne Harrington of Ireland beat Beatriz Ferreira of Brazil to win the women's lightweight boxing gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. Ferreira won silver, while Mira Potkonen of Finland and Sudaporn Seesondee of Thaila..