2022
Los Angeles (AFP) - It was -- mostly -- about the football for fans watching the Iran-USA game in the United States on Tuesday, a match played against the backdrop of soaring geopolitical tensions, which occasionally poked their way through the sport. Scores of supporters packed a restaurant in a part of Los Angeles known locally as "Tehrangeles" because of the large number of Iranians and Iranian-Americans in the area, cheering their way through a lively meet-up happening half a world away. Chants of "USA, USA" erupted periodically as the US men's team dominated action on the pitch in Qatar, ...
AFP
Doha (AFP) - The United States and Iran meet in a politically charged winner-takes-all World Cup clash on Tuesday as England aim to reach the last 16 as group winners with victory over Wales. Ever since the draw for the tournament was made in April, the Group B game between the US and Iran has stood out as one of the highlights of the first phase in Qatar. Even with little riding on the result, the game at Thumama Stadium would have been loaded with political overtones, only the third meeting on a football field of two nations who share more than 40 years of ideological enmity. But Tuesday's m...
AFP
Doha (AFP) - United States skipper Tyler Adams says his teammates are embracing their underdog status as they chase another World Cup upset against mighty England on Friday. The US head into Friday's Group B clash at the Al Bayt Stadium desperately needing a positive result after being held to a 1-1 draw against Wales on Monday. England meanwhile go into the game on a high after a 6-2 mauling of Iran, and a win for Gareth Southgate's side would see them assured of a place in the last 16. Leeds midfielder Adams however says the Americans are unfazed by the prospect of taking on a team he regard...
AFP
Doha (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday called FIFA's ban on an armband promoting LGBTQ rights at the World Cup in Qatar "concerning". Speaking in Doha hours after watching the United States held to a 1-1 draw by Wales, Blinken told a press conference that no team should be forced to choose between "supporting his values" and playing. England, Germany and five other European teams abandoned plans to wear rainbow-themed "Onelove" armbands at the World Cup because of the threat of FIFA disciplinary action. The armbands had been viewed as a symbolic protest against laws in Wo...
AFP
Sydney (AFP) - Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas nailed 13 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists as the United States close in on an 11th title after setting up a women's basketball World Cup semi-final against Canada Thursday. Guard Kelsey Plum added a game-high 17 points in a 88-55 pummelling of Serbia, with the three-time defending champions strong on both offence and defence. They will meet Canada in Sydney on Friday after the world number four swept past Puerto Rico 79-60 in their bid for a first medal since capturing bronze in 1986. An impressive China battled past Olympic bronze me...
AFP
Sydney (AFP) - Coach Cheryl Reeve admitted Wednesday the fate of "gentle soul" Brittney Griner was weighing heavily on the USA team at the basketball World Cup in Sydney and the jailed star's number 15 jersey would not be worn at the tournament. Griner, a standout when they won gold at the Tokyo Olympics last year, would normally be with the squad as they attempt to claim a fourth straight title and 11th overall, starting Thursday against Belgium. But the 31-year-old is instead in a Russian prison, sentenced to nine years in a penal colony after being arrested at a Moscow airport in February f...
AFP
Beijing (AFP) - Olympic sponsor Airbnb has hundreds of listings in Xinjiang and Tibet, two regions where China stands accused of widespread human rights abuses and forced cultural assimilation, new research reveals. Beijing is hosting the Winter Games amid international alarm over rights violations against minority groups, particularly its mostly Muslim Uyghur population. Airbnb is one of the Olympics' biggest backers with a reported $500 million sponsorship deal running until 2028. The online platform's steady growth in China is partly driven by around 700 accommodation listings in the troubl...
AFP
Beijing (AFP) - Nathan Chen won a dominant figure skating gold for his first Olympic title with reigning champion Yuzuru Hanyu falling twice on the ice and failing to win a medal in Beijing on Thursday. One of the most eagerly anticipated events of the Games came as the IOC refused to comment on a reported doping case involving another figure skater, 15-year-old Russian sensation Kamila Valieva. Eight golds were up for grabs on the sixth day of competition in the Chinese capital, with the Americans Chen and Chloe Kim, in snowboard halfpipe, blitzing the opposition to win two of them in style. ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The United States on Sunday criticized China's choice of an ethnic Uyghur to carry the Olympic torch, calling it an effort by Beijing to "distract us" from the mistreatment of the minority group. The appearance Friday of Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a 20-year-old cross-country skier, as the final torch bearer thrust her -- and the Uyghur question -- squarely onto the world stage. "This is an effort by the Chinese to distract us from the real issue here at hand," US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Sunday on CNN: "that Uyghurs are being tortured, and Uyg...
AFP
Beijing (AFP) - The United States is paying athletes to "create disturbances" during the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese state media reported Saturday. The accusations come just a week before the start of the most politicised Games in recent memory and immediately drew a denial from the US embassy in China. China Daily newspaper, citing "sources familiar with the matter", said there was a plot by Washington to persuade athletes to "play passively" or refuse to take part in competitions and "express discontent toward China". "The sources stressed that Washington's plan is a new example demonst...
AFP
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら