This Is Beirut 2024-06-10 14:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Max Verstappen returned to form and completed a hat-trick of Canadian Grand Prix wins on Sunday when he triumphed for Red Bull in a thrilling, tactical, and incident-filled race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. "Pretty crazy race," said the Dutchman at the finish. "A lot happening. We stayed calm." The series leader and three-time champion rode ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-10 10:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Boston Celtics, fueled by 26 points from Jrue Holiday, thwarted a desperate Dallas rally in the final minutes to beat the Mavericks 105-98 on Sunday and take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals. On a night when early struggles from three-point range bedevilled the Celtics, their all-around effort on both ends of the floor saw them notch a second ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-09 22:17 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Carlos Alcaraz fought back to defeat Alexander Zverev in a five-set French Open final on Sunday and become the youngest man to win Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces. The 21-year-old battled cramps to recover from 2-1 down in sets and win a gripping contest 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 after four hours and 19 minutes on Court Philippe ...
Jad Ramadan 2024-06-09 21:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Riyadi club, reigning champions of Lebanon, the WASL, the WASL Final 8 and the Dubai International Championship, started their Champions League Basketball Asia (BCLA) campaign on the right foot. The Lebanese club, representing West Asia, thrashed China's Liaoning Flying Leopards 118-75 on Sunday in Dubai. Riyadi delivered a convincing ...
Makram Haddad 2024-06-09 20:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Roger Feghali and his co-driver Joseph Matar, driving a Skoda Fabia, won the 29th Cedars Rally, organized by the Automobile and Touring Club of Lebanon (ATCL), over two days in the Northern Governorate. In hot summer weather, twenty-five teams started the rally on Saturday, and twenty-three reached the finish on Sunday. This race was the second ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-09 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Carlos Alcaraz says that he is hoping to join the long list of Spanish French Open champions when he bids to become the youngest man to win Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces in the final against Alexander Zverev on Sunday. The 21-year-old defeated Novak Djokovic to win Wimbledon last year and also lifted the US Open trophy as a teenager in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-09 11:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Home favorite Marcell Jacobs retained his European 100m crown in Rome as Team Italy basked in their own “Super Saturday” with two further golds to surge to the top of the medals table. In a night of high-quality track and field at Rome's Stadio Olimpico, there was a record-extending seventh discus title for Croatia's Sandra Elkasevic. There ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-09 09:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
George Russell beat Max Verstappen to pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix on Saturday when the pair shared a best lap time of one minute and 12.000 seconds. The Briton took the prime starting spot because he set his lap time earlier in the session. In a dramatic conclusion to a closely-contested qualifying session, Mercedes' Russell was ...
2024-06-08 19:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Riyadi prepares for a new competition this season on the international stage. The journey to a new yellow victory begins on Friday at Sheikh Saeed Bin Maktoum Sports Hall in Dubai City, as part of the Basketball Champions League Asia 2024 (BCL Asia). The BCL Asia The Basketball Champions League Asia 2024 will be its inaugural edition, and the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-08 18:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fernando Alonso led the way for Aston Martin in Friday's second free practice at the Canadian Grand Prix, the two-time world champion making the most of changing conditions to outpace Mercedes' George Russell on a wet day at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Alonso clocked a best lap in one minute and 15.810 seconds to beat Russell by 0.462 seconds ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-08 18:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Poland's Iga Swiatek extended her French Open reign on Saturday as she thrashed Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 in the final to win her third successive Roland Garros title. World number one Swiatek dominated Italian 12th seed Paolini, a first-time Grand Slam finalist, needing just 68 minutes to capture a fourth crown in five years in Paris. Swiatek ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-08 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jamal Valizadeh, a refugee wrestler, overcame hardship to reach the Paris Olympics with the Refugee Olympic Team, driven by a decade-long dream of winning a medal. Sixteen hours of barely paid daily work in Turkey, swimming part of the Mediterranean, and ten years after all that ordeal, the Paris Olympics: for refugee wrestler Jamal Valizadeh, a ...