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Belarusian skier flees country after ban for political views
A Belarusian cross-country skier has fled the country with her family because of fears of reprisals by authorities after she ...UN head calls for ‘Olympic’ truce in Ethiopia
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged Tuesday for all parties in the Ethiopian conflict to implement a truce to mark ...Cameroon stadium stampede kills at least eight, government says
At least eight fans died and 38 people were injured in a stampede at the Yaounde Olembe Stadium in Cameroon ...Australia cancels tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa again
Australia cancelled Novak Djokovic’s visa for a second time on Friday saying the world tennis number one who has not been vaccinated for COVID-19 ...Tennis star Djokovic wins court battle to stay in Australia
World number one Novak Djokovic was released from Australian immigration detention on Monday after winning a court challenge to revive ...Djokovic in limbo as lawyers battle over Australia entry ban
World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic was denied entry into Australia on Thursday amid a storm of protest about ...China says U.S. diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics could harm co-operation
China warned on Tuesday that a U.S diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics could harm two-way dialogue and co-operation ...Olympics-IOC removes two Belarus coaches, sprinter says order came from ‘high up’
Two Belarus coaches who cut short sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s Tokyo Games have had their accreditation revoked and were removed from ...Olympics-Track world record smashed as IOC probes Belarus over sprinter
The Olympics governing body was probing Belarus’s treatment of an athlete seeking refuge while Norway’s Karsten Warholm demolished a world ...Seeking asylum, Belarus athlete walks into Poland’s embassy in Tokyo
A Belarusian athlete who refused to board a flight https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/exclusive-olympics-belarusian-athlete-says-she-was-taken-airport-go-home-after-2021-08-01 after she said she was taken to the airport against ...