This Is Beirut 2024-03-02 10:26 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Max Verstappen delivered some much-needed relief for his Red Bull team on Friday when he resisted Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to claim pole position for Saturday's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. The defending three-time world champion picked up where he left off last year by topping the times in a closely-contested qualifying session at the ...
Makram Haddad 2024-03-01 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia has just organized a freestyle skiing event that is controversial on an ecological and humanitarian level. Not even Hergé, the father of Tintin, saw this coming. Hergé was a visionary in more ways than one. His lunar adventure foreshadowed the Apollo 11 mission, almost fifteen years before Neil Armstrong set foot on the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-01 17:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami face an early season derby test when they host Florida rivals Orlando City in Major League Soccer on Saturday. Messi's stoppage time equalizer in Sunday's 1-1 draw at the Los Angeles Galaxy ensured that Miami remain unbeaten after opening their campaign with a 2-0 win at home to Real Salt Lake. Despite the results, ...
2024-03-01 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Olympic Organizing Committee organized a "Relay Race" in the courtyard of the Palais des Pins in Beirut under the slogan "Land of Games," in collaboration with the Sports Academy. With 150 days to go before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris next summer, the organizers decided to stage a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-01 10:39 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Los Angeles Lakers, fueled by 40 points from Anthony Davis and 31 from LeBron James, pulled off another NBA thriller on Thursday, beating the Washington Wizards 134-131 in overtime. One day after James reeled off 34 points -- 19 of them in the fourth quarter -- to key a come-from-behind victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, the Lakers had to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-29 16:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France star Paul Pogba has been given a four-year ban from football by Italy's anti-doping tribunal after testing positive for testosterone last August, his club Juventus said on Thursday. A spokesman for the club told AFP it had been notified of the decision against the 30-year-old World Cup winner, who had been provisionally suspended in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-29 14:32 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon's Imad Nasri Lahoud has been appointed Chairman of the Rally Commission, one of the most important commissions within the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), following a proposal by the Federation's President, Mohammed bin Sulayem. The decision to appoint Lahoud was taken by the Federation's Council for a two-year term. It ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-29 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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LeBron James staged the biggest fourth quarter comeback of his two-decade career on Wednesday as the Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a 21-point deficit to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers 116-112. The 39-year-old NBA icon reeled off 34 points -- 19 of them in the fourth quarter -- to help the Lakers claim a pulsating victory over their in-form ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-29 10:22 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Manchester United to Host Liverpool in FA Cup Quarter-Final Showdown Manchester United will host Liverpool in an FA Cup quarter-final blockbuster after the bitter rivals took contrasting routes to their fifth round victories on Wednesday. United eased the pressure on beleaguered boss Erik ten Hag as they scraped through with a 1-0 win at ...
Jalal Beaino 2024-02-29 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Lebanese Table Tennis Federation has launched its busy calendar of activities for the year 2024. This Is Beirut met the President of the Federation (also a member of the International Federation), Georges Kopaly, who was elected to head the Federation in autumn 2020 and is successfully steering the sport's ship. A Busy Schedule Lebanese ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-28 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Max Strus drained an astonishing 58-foot buzzer-beater as the Cleveland Cavaliers conjured a stunning late fightback to sink the Dallas Mavericks 121-119 on Tuesday. In a remarkable finale in Cleveland, Strus unleashed a mammoth heave from inside his own half to snatch victory from Dallas, who had grabbed a 119-118 lead with just over two seconds ...
2024-02-28 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese national soccer team lost their semi-final match against Nepal in the West Asian Championship by a score of 1-2, following a fatal goal by the in the last minute of second-half stoppage time. Yet, everything had started well for the team. The Lebanese players opened the scoring in the thirty-seventh minute when a Nepalese ...