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Rescheduled Olympics may come before summer 2021: Bach

Rescheduled Olympics may come before summer 2021: Bach

Reuters 2020-03-25 20:19:07

The head of the global Olympic movement said on Wednesday that the rescheduled Tokyo Games faced "thousands" of logistical and financial problems and could go ahead before summer 2021. Though most pe...

27 Bangladesh cricketers pool fund to battle coronavirus

27 Bangladesh cricketers pool fund to battle coronavirus

-- 2020-03-25 13:53:47

Bangladesh cricketers have decided to pool up a fund by providing half of their one-month pay for a coronavirus fund as 27 players joined efforts to battle the pandemic outbreak. A total of 17 of the...

Messi donates $1.08m each to coronavirus battle

Messi donates $1.08m each to coronavirus battle

-- 2020-03-25 13:33:30

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola have each donated one million euros (1.08 million US dollar) towards the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19). Argentina inter...

Organisers reschedule Tokyo Olympics

Organisers reschedule Tokyo Olympics

-- 2020-03-24 19:31:37

The International Olympic Committee and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have concluded the Tokyo 2020 Olympics must be postponed, and held no later than the summer of 2021, the IOC and Tokyo 2020 or...

Olympics to be postponed until 2021, says IOC member

Olympics to be postponed until 2021, says IOC member

-- 2020-03-24 10:16:15

The 2020 Olympic Games will be postponed by one year because of coronavirus, says International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound. It comes after the chairman of the British Olympic Association sai...

Coronavirus: Olympic doubts grow as Canada withdraws athletes

Coronavirus: Olympic doubts grow as Canada withdraws athletes

-- 2020-03-23 10:29:49

The 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo have been thrown into further doubt after Canada became the first major country to withdraw. Their announcement came shortly after the Japanese Prime Mi...

Juventus’s Dybala tests positive for coronavirus

Juventus’s Dybala tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-03-22 12:03:03

Juventus and Argentina soccer forward Paulo Dybala has tested positive for coronavirus but has no symptoms, the Italian Serie A club said on Saturday, making him one of the most high-profile players t...

BCB adopts ‘work from home’ policy

BCB adopts ‘work from home’ policy

-- 2020-03-21 15:25:17

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday announced that it will follow the ‘work from home’ policy from March 22, aiming to prevent the transmission of coronavirus. The staff who are no...

Cricket boards set to suffer huge losses for coronavirus

Cricket boards set to suffer huge losses for coronavirus

FE Sports Desk 2020-03-20 00:00:00

The coronavirus outbreak has already impacted many sporting events across the world. In cricket itself, the action-packed Pakistan Super League (PSL 2020) got suspended just prior to the commencement...

BCB suspends cricket for indefinite period

BCB suspends cricket for indefinite period

-- 2020-03-19 18:25:10

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday suspended all kinds of cricket in the country for an indefinite period, aiming to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Board president Nazmul Hasan told media th...

Juve’s France midfielder Matuidi tests positive for coronavirus

Juve’s France midfielder Matuidi tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-03-18 15:17:28

Juventus and France midfielder Blaise Matuidi has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Turin-based Serie A club said in a statement on Tuesday. Juve said Matuidi, a World Cup winner with France i...

Euro 2020 postponed until 2021

Euro 2020 postponed until 2021

-- 2020-03-17 18:49:44

Euro 2020 has been postponed by one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, says the Norwegian FA. UEFA, European football's governing body, has been holding an emergency video conferenc...

Govt suspends all sporting events amid COVID-19 pandemic

Govt suspends all sporting events amid COVID-19 pandemic

-- 2020-03-16 21:02:24

The State Minister for Youth and Sports M Zahid Ahsan Russell has directed all the National Sports Federations, Associations and concerned authorities to immediately halt all ongoing and scheduled upc...

National School Hockey Tournament- 2020 ends

National School Hockey Tournament- 2020 ends

FE Online Desk 2020-03-16 13:59:12

The closing & prize giving ceremony of First Security Islami Bank sponsored ‘Bangabandhu First Security Islami Bank National School Hockey Tournament- 2020’ was held on 15 March 2020 a...

Tigers’ tour of Pakistan postponed

Tigers’ tour of Pakistan postponed

-- 2020-03-16 13:25:50

Bangladesh’s Pakistan tour scheduled for April has been cancelled due to the outbreak of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). Bangladesh were scheduled to tour Pakistan for the third and final phase o...

Premier League, Champions League suspended

Premier League, Champions League suspended

-- 2020-03-13 17:45:27

All elite football in England has been suspended until at least April 3 as a result of the spread of coronavirus. All Premier League games, EFL fixtures and matches in the FA Women's Super League and...

Arsenal manager Arteta tests positive for coronavirus

Arsenal manager Arteta tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-03-13 12:20:47

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for the coronavirus, the club said on Thursday, prompting the Premier League to announce an emergency meeting on Friday. Arsenal’s first-team sq...

India orders international cricket matches in empty stadiums

India orders international cricket matches in empty stadiums

-- 2020-03-12 13:58:21

The India government has ordered upcoming international cricket matches to be played in empty stadiums, as travel operators warned of an unprecedented impact of a blanket visa ban by the government to...

Juventus defender Rugani tests positive for COVID-19

Juventus defender Rugani tests positive for COVID-19

-- 2020-03-12 11:51:05

Juventus defender Daniele Rugani has tested positive for COVID-19, the Serie A giants confirmed on Wednesday. According to the Bianconeri, the 25-year-old Italy international currently has no symptom...

Tigers get dominant win in all formats for first time

Tigers get dominant win in all formats for first time

-- 2020-03-11 21:54:22

Bangladesh made history through defeating a team in all matches in all three formats with a 2-0 whitewash over visiting Zimbabwe by nine wickets in the last one of two-match Twety20 International seri...

BCB postpones Mujib Year cricket matches, concert

BCB postpones Mujib Year cricket matches, concert

-- 2020-03-11 20:22:17

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has postponed two Twenty20 matches between World XI and Asia XI and a concert, scheduled to take place in celebration of Mujib Year, the birth centenary of the Fathe...

Tigers get 48-run win against Zimbabwe in T20 opener

Tigers get 48-run win against Zimbabwe in T20 opener

-- 2020-03-09 22:16:57

A swashbuckling half-century by Soumya Sarkar and three wickets each from Mustafizur Rahman have guided Bangladesh to a resounding 48-run victory against Zimbabwe in the opening T20I. Chasing 201 for...

Real Madrid lose at Betis to hand top spot back to Barca

Real Madrid lose at Betis to hand top spot back to Barca

-- 2020-03-09 13:13:15

Real Madrid failed to build on last week’s ‘Clasico’ victory as they lost 2-1 at Real Betis in a fiery match on Sunday and surrendered top spot in La Liga to Barcelona. Former Barca...

Tamim named new ODI captain

Tamim named new ODI captain

-- 2020-03-08 19:58:26

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Sunday announced Tamim Iqbal as the new ODI captain of Bangladesh Cricket Team, reports UNB. "Tamim has been selected as the new ODI captain. He’ll be leading...

Australia wins Women’s T20 WC beating India by 85 runs

Australia wins Women’s T20 WC beating India by 85 runs

-- 2020-03-08 17:35:37

Opening batswomen Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney scored glittering half-centuries as a ruthless Australia crushed India by 85 runs to win a record-extending fifth Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in fro...

Tigers whitewash Zimbabwe, Captain Mashrafe gets wining farewell

Tigers whitewash Zimbabwe, Captain Mashrafe gets wining farewell

-- 2020-03-06 23:31:40

Tigers gave a wining farewell to Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as the ODI captain through completing the 'mission whitewash' against Zimbabwe on Friday. Bangladesh completed the mission with a 123-run win (DL...

Tamim, Liton shatter records to fire Bangladesh to 322 against Zimbabwe

Tamim, Liton shatter records to fire Bangladesh to 322 against Zimbabwe

-- 2020-03-06 20:08:53

Liton Das has smashed 176, the highest by a Bangladeshi in One-Day Internationals, in a record stand of 292 with his opening partner and the other centurion Tamim Iqbal to pile up 322 for 3 against Zi...

Liton's century puts Bangladesh on top against Zimbabwe

Liton's century puts Bangladesh on top against Zimbabwe

-- 2020-03-06 17:17:08

A century by opener Liton Das has propelled Bangladesh to a commanding position in the third and final ODI against Zimbabwe in Sylhet. Liton smashed 13 boundaries en route to his second hundred of th...

Mashrafe to quit captaincy

Mashrafe to quit captaincy

-- 2020-03-05 15:43:00

Mashrafe Mortaza is set to play his last ODI as captain in the third and final match against Zimbabwe on Friday. He made the announcement at a pre-match press conference in Sylhet on Thursday, bdnews...

Ronaldinho arrested for alleged passport fraud

Ronaldinho arrested for alleged passport fraud

-- 2020-03-05 12:19:17

Brazilian football great Ronaldinho and his brother Roberto Assis have been arrested in Paraguayan capital Asuncion for allegedly entering the country with false passports. Ronaldinho, 39, and Robert...