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The #International Cycling Union (UCI) has decided to allow Russian cyclists to participate in team events at international tournaments under a neutral status, UCI’s press office said in a statement.
The newly-announced regulations come into force starting on July 1, and they were backed by the European Cycling Federation (UEC) as well. Russian cyclists will be now able to participate in team races at the 2026 UEC Track Juniors European Championships in Germany’s Cottbus on July 7-12.
The ICU has also announced that it lifted all of its previously-imposed sanctions against Russia based on recommendations from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
In December 2025, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board issued recommendations that allowed athletes in international federations from Russia and Belarus to participate in youth disciplines under the national flags and anthems. This recommendation applied to both individual and team sports. Numerous international sports federations followed the proposal.
Later on, some of the international sports federations decided to lift all previously imposed restrictions not only for youth athletes but for all athletes at various levels from Russia and Belarus.
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For the second time in two days, a professional sports franchise in Dallas has announced plans to leave the city’s urban core
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VALLADOLID — The Canadian women’s rugby sevens team advanced to the semifinals of an HSBC SVNS World Championship Series tournament with a 40-5 quarterfinal victory over Japan on Saturday.
Canada takes on the United States and Australia faces New Zealand in Sunday’s semifinals with the medal games scheduled for later in the day.
Canadian captain Olivia Apps, Asia Hogan-Rochester, Florence Symonds, Charity Williams, Savannah Bauder and Adia Pye scored tries for Canada in the quarterfinal victory over Japan.
Apps contributed three conversions and Bauder two.
Canada and Japan traded possession through the opening four minutes before Apps broke through a gap near midfield and raced down the field to open the scoring.
Hogan-Rochester and Symonds each added tries before halftime as Canada built a 21-0 lead.
Williams scored her third try of the tournament early in the second half to make it 28-0.
With Japan pressing late, Williams forced a turnover near her own goal line and quickly moved the ball to Bauder, who sprinted 80 metres for another score.
Pye scored Canada’s final try after a Japanese handling error. Japan scored its lone try on the final play of the match.
Canada went undefeated in its pool with victories over host Spain, Great Britain and France.
Canada’s women, the Olympic silver medallists in 2024, placed fourth at the season-opening world championship leg in Hong Kong in April.
The world champions will be crowned in the third and final leg of the series June 5-7 in Bordeaux, France.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 28, 2026.
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Paris St Germain (PSG) retained their Champions League title with a penalty shoot-out victory over Arsenal after a 1-1 draw in a cagey final in the Puskas Arena on Saturday.
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Serena Williams wants to make comeback with #Canada’s #Mboko in doubles: report, The Telegraph reported Thursday that Williams, 44, plans to request a wild card to play doubles with Victoria Mboko, 19, of Canada in the Queen’s Club Championships next month in London. The tournament, which begins on June 8, serves as a grass-court tune-up for Wimbledon.
Williams had great success on the courts at Wimbledon, where she won seven singles titles. She also teamed with her sister, Venus Williams, for six doubles championships in London.
Serena Williams last played on the WTA Tour in a loss to Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round of the 2022 U.S. Open.
In her time away from tennis, Williams gave birth to her second daughter in August 2023.
She reportedly re-entered the registered testing pool for the International Tennis Integrity Agency in December. She has completed the mandatory six-month period in that pool.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion initially dismissed comeback rumors in December before slightly changing her tune during an appearance on the “Today” show in late January.
“I’m just having fun and enjoying my life right now,” Williams said, when asked on the show about a potential comeback. “That’s not a yes or no. I don’t know. I’m just gonna see what happens.”
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More U.S. women are watching the NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs. There are many reasons why: The first two rounds of the #NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs are the most-watched in the U.S. in league history.
Women are the primary driver of that growth.
TNT Sports reported female viewership in the U.S. is up 66 per cent and ESPN reported a 106 per cent increase, with plenty of that audience coming from 18-to-34-year-olds tuning in to hockey at its most exciting time of year.
“We see the numbers up everywhere,” ESPN VP of production Linda Schulz said. “(Hockey) is a particular challenge because sports fans tend to follow something that they themselves have participated in and hockey is one that is not as commonplace for people to have actually strapped on skates. I approach it with, if I get a new fan coming to hockey, what is going to keep them.”
What’s bringing fans in, Schulz and other executives said, is a result of a handful of factors. The success of the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament last year, the Olympics in February when the U.S. men and women won gold, the quality of play, an influx of young talent and the viral popularity of the “Heated Rivalry” and “Off Campus” hockey romance shows have combined to bring more women to the sport.
“It’s not any one thing,” TNT Sports executive VP and chief content officer Craig Barry said. “It’s the collective of the planets aligning that has shown dramatic increases in the female audience.”
The NHL says the playoffs are averaging 1.4 million viewers, up 63 per cent from last year and up 24 per cent from the previous high set in 2024. Some of the increase can be attributed to a change in how Nielsen is counting viewers, causing bumps across the board, though hockey has been seeing an upward trend in viewership predating that.
That began after the 4 Nations, which NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said caused a viewership increase late in the 2024-25 season and into the playoffs. The Olympics built off that, with the Milan Cortina Games drawing huge ratings.
“The Olympics was a cultural moment,” NHL chief operating officer Stephen McArdle said. “We know that Olympic viewership does appeal to those demographics, to that female demographic, and so I think the Olympic bump that we saw was really in part influenced by that female Olympic audience.”
How big a role “Heated Rivalry” plays is difficult to measure. Schulz, who grew up as a sports fan in the Boston area, said it does not enter her mind, but the networks and the league are well aware of the conversation going around it.
“We know that the fictional series are a gateway to our sport,” McArdle said. “We know that it opens doors to an interest in the sport of hockey, and it’s incumbent upon us to make sure that new audiences that are coming through those doors feel welcomed as they come in, and also that we help them find their way through the door.”
Schulz said technology helps with that, pointing to aerial sky cams that highlight the speed and physicality of the game, and the addition of a camera person on the ice to capture emotional moments like a player expressing frustration after getting called for a penalty.
“It is incredible how that emotional draw, to me, is the real way to pull in a casual fan,” Schulz said. “It’s that balance of getting the feel of the ice through something like your aerial coverage and the feel of the player or the emotion of the player.”
McArdle said the NHL has also leaned into TikTok, where many of the top videos were viewed by more women than men. A clip of Carolina’s Jordan Martinook losing a skate blade particularly stood out as something that was popular beyond highlight-reel goals, saves and hits.
Social media has drawn in more young fans, men and women, and promotion of U.S. broadcasts on ESPN, ABC, TNT, TruTV and on HBO Max has gotten them to watching live on one platform or another.
“That’s why it’s so important to meet them where they are,” Barry said. “That’s why our kind of strategy is put it everywhere in a simulcast capacity, so regardless of where you are consuming and digesting your content, in this particular case, NHL games, it’s there for you.”
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Russell snatches F1 pole in Montreal with late lap to frustrate Antonelli
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