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News18
4 days ago
- Sport
- News18
Nagal progresses to semifinals of Tampere Open
Agency: PTI New Delhi, Jul 25 (PTI) India's Sumit Nagal breezed into the singles semifinal of the Tampere ATP Challenger event in Finland following a straight-sets win over Argentine qualifier Nicolas Kicker on Friday. Nagal, ranked 306, pulled off a 6-4 6-3 win over Kicker, who is ranked 361 in the singles ATP chart. It was third meeting between the two players and Nagal now leads the head-to-head record 2-1. The last time they clashed was in 2022 when Kicker emerged winner in the Guayaquil pre-quarterfinals. The 28-year-old Indian won 67 points to 51 of his rival. Gradually getting back to form, Nagal has now matched his best finish of the season as he had ended a semifinalist at the Trieste Challenger in Italy. Nagal has won six Challenger singles titles from 10 finals. Meanwhile, competing at the Cranbrook Tennis Classic in Bloomfield Hills in the USA, second-seeded Indian pair of Anirudh Chandrasekar and Ramkumar Ramanathan made a quarterfinal exit after losing 6-4 4-6 7-10 to local wildcards Stefan Dostanic and Benjamin Kittay. PTI AT AM AT AM AM Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Free Malaysia Today
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Russia's luge federation to appeal 2026 Winter Games ban
The International Olympic Committee said in May that Russian teams remained banned from next year's Games. (EPA Images pic) TAMPERE : The Russian Luge Federation (FSSR) said it will take legal action over a decision by the sport's global governing body to bar the country's athletes from the qualifying process for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. The International Luge Federation voted at its congress in Tampere, Finland last month to extend an existing exclusion for Russian athletes from its competitions. It also voted to not authorise a programme for neutral Russian athletes. The FSSR said in a statement on Monday it had notified the governing body of its intention to challenge the decision in international courts. The FSSR told Russian news agency TASS it would appeal to the court of arbitration for sport. 'We will defend the rights of our athletes to participate in the Olympic Games 2026,' FSSR president Natalia Gart said. The FIL did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. The International Olympic Committee said in May that Russian teams remained banned from next year's Games as part of sanctions following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Four Russian figure skaters in men's and women's singles have been approved by the International Skating Union to try to qualify for the 2026 Olympics as neutral athletes.
CNA
04-07-2025
- CNA
Finland stabbing suspect says chose victims randomly: police
HELSINKI, Finland: The suspect in a stabbing attack that wounded four near a Finnish shopping centre this week said he chose his victims randomly and believed he was being stalked, police said Friday (Jul 4). The 23-year-old suspect, a Finnish man, admitted to the Thursday violence and said he did not know the victims and did not choose them for any particular reason, police added. There was "no reason to suspect that the act was motivated by terrorism or racism", said police, noting the man had a record of violent crime. The suspect told investigators that "all humans are enemies" and that "everyone is stalking him", Detective Chief Inspector Sakari Tuominen told reporters on Friday. The suspect also said that "people get what they ask for" and that "he wanted to end his own suffering with this act". "The motive will be clarified during the preliminary investigation through interviews," Tuominen said. Police were alerted to the stabbing outside a shopping centre in central Tampere at 4.23pm (9.23pm, Singapore time) on Thursday. The victims received first aid at the scene and were now receiving hospital care for "severe injuries", according to police, though none of the victims had life-threatening injuries. The suspect put up no resistance as he was arrested at the scene carrying a knife, police said. Police were proceeding with an investigation into four counts of alleged attempted murder. Tuominen added that the 23-year-old had a criminal record, including stabbing a person in 2023 and three counts of aggravated robbery while carrying a knife in 2020. Finnish media on Friday also reported that police believed the man may have planned the act for a long period of time. Police have requested the suspect be remanded in custody and a court hearing is scheduled for Monday.
RNZ News
04-07-2025
- Sport
- RNZ News
Kiwi disc golf exponents face world's best on Finnish fairways
Michelle Simpson took up disc golf during Covid lockdown, after an extensive background in ultimate. Photo: Supplied Kiwi disc golf exponent Michelle Simpson seems somewhat surprised to be taking on some of the niche sport's biggest names at the PDGA World Championships in Finland later this month. The event is recognised as one of the four major tournaments in the discipline, which sees competitors trying to throw into metal cages around a course, much like their golfing counterparts. The lingo is the same, the venues are often the same and the anguish is very much the same. Simpson took up the game during Covid lockdown, after an extensive background in the team sport of ultimate frisbee, and admits she feels lucky to be included in such elite company. "It's like being invited to the Masters at Augusta," she told Checkpoint. "This year, they decided to be a bit more inclusive. "I wouldn't normally have qualified, but they decided to invite some of the smaller countries that might not usually get there, and they invited the top female and top male." Simpson and Francis Orange will make up the Kiwi contingent at the cities of Tampere and Nokia, and are currently fundraising for the campaign . "It's really nice and the first time they're holding the championships outside [North America], so I think the Finnish like to be inclusive." The sport is still some way off Olympic inclusion, but commands a small, fanatical following around the world, with more than 100,000 members of the Professional Disc Golf Association and more than 15,000 registered courses. "We very much follow the golf theme," Simpson said. "We often wear the polo shirts at tournaments like golfers and sometimes we play on golf courses, which are trying to make more money and get funding coming through. "They even make us take our hats off when we come into the clubrooms. You have the same anguish as well, when you miss." Disc golfers also carry a bag of frisbees, each designed for a different purpose, just like golf clubs. "That's where all the disc manufacturers make so much money," she said. "They all look the same, but they're slightly thicker, some turn to the left, some turn to the right… 'putters' are slightly different to the others." Also like golf, the game is big business. Estonian Kristin Lätt - the world's top female - reportedly signed a US$1 million deal for four years, with a stable sponsors that includes Porsche and tournament earnings of about US$100,000 a year. She has seven major titles to her name and became the first woman to achieve a Grand Slam of all four majors in 2023. "It's crazy," Simpson said. "There's so many fringe sports around the world that have a very small amount of people, but a very dedicated amount of people and they can make a decent living." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Yahoo
Four people stabbed near shopping mall in Finland's Tampere
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Four people were injured in a stabbing attack near a shopping mall in the Finnish city of Tampere on Thursday and one person was arrested, but there were no indications of a terrorist or racist motive in the incident, police said. A police statement gave no further details on the injuries from the attack in the Nordic country's third largest city but said the situation was under control and there was no further threat to the public. "According to (our) current information, there is no reason to suspect that the act had a terrorist or racist motive," police said later in an update that gave no information on the arrested suspect. Public broadcaster YLE earlier reported that traffic in the centre of Tampere - located some 180 kilometres (112 miles) north of the capital Helsinki - was at a standstill. The daily Ilta-Sanomat reported that a witness saw bystanders giving first aid to two people lying on the ground at the time police arrived, and that, according to its information, the person arrested was a Finnish man in his twenties. In May, three pupils were injured in an attack at a school in southern Finland and a fellow student suspected of carrying out the assault was apprehended. Last year, a 12-year-old boy shot dead a fellow sixth-grader and severely injured two others at a school in the town of Vantaa. The boy said he had been a target of bullying and that this had motivated his attack.
