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The Guardian
3 days ago
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- The Guardian
LAFC v Club América – Club World Cup playoff live
Update: Date: 2025-06-01T01:08:11.000Z Title: Content: LAFC has been in really good, but not outsstanding form of late. The team hasn't lost since 9 April's 3-1 result v Inter Miami in the Concacaf Champions Cup, but have only won three of their last eight games. The other five have all been high-scoring draws. In total, LAFC has managed to give up 12 goals in 8 games and not lose any of those games. Maybe not the best omen for a one-off knockout match, but impressive nonetheless! Update: Date: 2025-06-01T01:07:37.000Z Title: Content: Oddly enough, it all started in Costa Rica. That's the home country of the club Alajuelense, who filed the first petition to remove either Club León or Pachuca from the competition, despite both being fair-and-square winners the Concacaf Champions Cup. Alajuelense's reasoning: both teams are owned by Grupo Pachuca, which violates the Club World Cup's rules against multi-club ownership within the competition. The matter was raised all the way to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), who ruled that León should be removed from the competition, while also dismissing Alajuelense's claims to replace them. In their place, Fifa decided on a playoff between LAFC and Club América, based on regional ranking and, in LAFC's case, being the team that León defeated in the 2023 Concacaf Champions Cup final to qualify for the tournament in the first place. It's complicated. More details here: Update: Date: 2025-06-01T01:07:37.000Z Title: Content: Club América is just coming off the disappointment of losing the Liga MX Liguilla final to Toluca, so they'll be well-practiced for a playoff situation.
Associated Press
07-05-2025
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- Associated Press
Olympic medalist wrestler banned for 2 years over missed doping tests
Georgia's Iakobi Kajaia, right, and Russian Olympic Committee's Sergei Semenov grapple during a men's 130kg Greco-Roman wrestling match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Chiba, Japan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic silver medalist wrestler Iakobi Kajaia was banned for two years over missed doping control tests, the International Testing Agency said Wednesday. Kajaia took silver for Georgia at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 in the men's Greco-Roman 130-kilogram category. He did not compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The ITA said it filed an investigation in May last year alleging Kajaia broke so-called whereabouts rules three times in a 12-month period starting in 2023. International athletes must specify where they can be found for one hour each day to give an unannounced doping control sample. The agency said 'the athlete could not be located based on the whereabouts information he had provided.' The 31-year-old wrestler was banned until April 2027 and had his results in 2024 disqualified by an anti-doping tribunal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He can challenge the ruling at a CAS appeal body. Kajaia is a two-time Olympian who placed seventh in the super-heavyweight class at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. In Tokyo, he lost the gold medal bout to Mijaín López of Cuba. ___ AP sports: The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world's population sees AP journalism every day.
