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Chelsea’s Palmer Comes Back to Haunt Man City in Thrilling 4-4 Draw 

Football - Premier League - Chelsea v Manchester City - Stamford Bridge, London, Britain - November 12, 2023 Chelsea's Cole Palmer celebrates scoring their fourth goal with Nicolas Jackson. (Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Chelsea v Manchester City - Stamford Bridge, London, Britain - November 12, 2023 Chelsea's Cole Palmer celebrates scoring their fourth goal with Nicolas Jackson. (Reuters)
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Chelsea’s Palmer Comes Back to Haunt Man City in Thrilling 4-4 Draw 

Football - Premier League - Chelsea v Manchester City - Stamford Bridge, London, Britain - November 12, 2023 Chelsea's Cole Palmer celebrates scoring their fourth goal with Nicolas Jackson. (Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Chelsea v Manchester City - Stamford Bridge, London, Britain - November 12, 2023 Chelsea's Cole Palmer celebrates scoring their fourth goal with Nicolas Jackson. (Reuters)

Former Manchester City player Cole Palmer scored a penalty in the fifth minute of stoppage time as Chelsea came back to draw 4-4 with the defending Premier League champions on Sunday.

Palmer left City for Chelsea in a deal worth around $52 million in September and showed supreme composure to fire past Ederson in the dying stages of a thrilling match at Stamford Bridge.

Rodri had looked like securing a win for Pep Guardiola's team with a deflected effort with four minutes left of regulation time.

But referee Anthony Taylor pointed to the spot when Ruben Dias slid into substitute Armando Broja in the box. After a delay, Palmer swept his shot into the corner to stop City moving three points clear at the top.

Chelsea dented Tottenham’s title ambitions with a wild 4-1 win against Ange Postecoglou’s team on Monday and proved a challenge for City, too, by coming back from behind on three occasions.

Erling Haaland fired City ahead from the penalty spot in the 25th after VAR adjudged Marc Cucurella to have fouled the Norwegian.

Thiago Silva evened the score four minutes later with header from Conor Gallagher’s corner.

Another former City player, Raheem Sterling, put Chelsea 2-1 up in the 37th by tapping in Reece James' cross after a sweeping attack,

The score was even again in first-half stoppage time when Bernardo Silva crossed for Manuel Akanji to head in.

City re-took the lead two minutes after the break, with Haaland the goal scorer again — sliding in to convert from close range.

Chelsea pushed again for an equalizer and Palmer was close to scoring when running from deep into the box and forcing a one-on-one save from Ederson.

Chelsea's third goal eventually came from Nicolas Jackson in the 67th. The striker fired in from the rebound after Gallagher’s long shot was parried.

Malo Gusto wasted a golden chance to put Chelsea ahead again by firing over from inside the box when he had the whole goal to aim at. And that miss proved costly when Rodri came up with what looked like the winner.

The Spain midfielder’s powerful effort from the edge of the box took a big deflection off Thiago Silva to send Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez the wrong way as the ball flew into the opposite corner.

It looked like being a cruel way to decide such a thrilling contest until Palmer's late intervention.

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International Olympic Committee Lifts Restrictions on Belarusian Athletes

The International Olympic Committee on Thursday lifted restrictions imposed on Belarusian athletes (Reuters)
The International Olympic Committee on Thursday lifted restrictions imposed on Belarusian athletes (Reuters)
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International Olympic Committee Lifts Restrictions on Belarusian Athletes

The International Olympic Committee on Thursday lifted restrictions imposed on Belarusian athletes (Reuters)
The International Olympic Committee on Thursday lifted restrictions imposed on Belarusian athletes (Reuters)

The International Olympic Committee on Thursday lifted all restrictions on Belarusian athletes, clearing the way for their return to international competitions, including at qualifiers for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, it said in a statement.

The IOC had recommended that Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials be banned from events since 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Belarus was used as a staging ground for ⁠the Russian invasion.

"The ⁠IOC Executive Board no longer recommends any restrictions on the participation of Belarusian athletes, including teams, in competitions governed by International Federations and international sports event organizers," Reuters quoted the Olympic body as saying.

Athletes from Belarus can now freely compete under their own flag and anthem, including in team ⁠sports. They can also take part in all qualifying events starting later this year for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

At both the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, only a handful of Russian and Belarusian athletes were allowed to compete, in individual events only and as neutral athletes without their flag.

The IOC said the lifting of restrictions would not apply to Russian athletes.

There has been increased speculation a similar decision ⁠could be ⁠made for Russia in the coming months.

"The situation relating to the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) is different from that relating to the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Belarus. The NOC of Belarus is in good standing and complies with the Olympic Charter," the IOC said.

Russia's Olympic committee was suspended in October 2023 for recognizing regional Olympic councils for Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine - Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia - following Russia's invasion.

The IOC said at the time this had violated the Olympic Charter and the territorial integrity of Ukraine’s Olympic Committee.

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Italy's Tennis Chief Wants to Break Grand Slam 'Monopoly' with New Major

(FILES) Italy's Jasmine Paolini (L) and Angelo Binaghi, President of the Italian Tennis Federation, celebrate after victory in her women's singles final match against US's Coco Gauff during the WTA Rome Open tennis tournament at Foro Italico in Rome on May 17, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
(FILES) Italy's Jasmine Paolini (L) and Angelo Binaghi, President of the Italian Tennis Federation, celebrate after victory in her women's singles final match against US's Coco Gauff during the WTA Rome Open tennis tournament at Foro Italico in Rome on May 17, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
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Italy's Tennis Chief Wants to Break Grand Slam 'Monopoly' with New Major

(FILES) Italy's Jasmine Paolini (L) and Angelo Binaghi, President of the Italian Tennis Federation, celebrate after victory in her women's singles final match against US's Coco Gauff during the WTA Rome Open tennis tournament at Foro Italico in Rome on May 17, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
(FILES) Italy's Jasmine Paolini (L) and Angelo Binaghi, President of the Italian Tennis Federation, celebrate after victory in her women's singles final match against US's Coco Gauff during the WTA Rome Open tennis tournament at Foro Italico in Rome on May 17, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Angelo Binaghi has dragged Italian tennis from the doldrums to a golden age since taking charge of the country's federation (FITP) a quarter of a century ago, with Jannik Sinner just the very best of some of the world's top players.

But the organizer of the Italian Open, which runs in Rome until May 17, has an even bigger goal -- breaking what he calls the Grand Slam monopoly and hosting a fifth major tournament in his home nation.

"The monopoly is scandalous and is a big handicap for tennis," Binaghi said in an interview with AFP and the Associated Press.

"It's a scandal that there is no meritocratic system, instead the system protects those who don't do as much as they could for tennis.

"There are four countries in the world that have a mountain of money to invest in tennis that other nations don't have. I'm trying to break that monopoly."

Binaghi insists that Italy is the place to host a fifth Slam given the explosion in popularity of the sport in recent years, pushed by the likes of Sinner and Jasmine Paolini, reigning women's champion here in Rome.

The 65-year-old said he was willing to organize the eventual tournament "anywhere in Italy and on any surface", but he was vague on the practicalities of creating a new Slam.

"Tennis is experiencing the sort of boom that will be difficult to replicate in the future, right at the time when our national football team is going through a disastrous period," he said.

"That makes our successes all the more important for our country."

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Binaghi suggested that his proposed tournament wouldn't be held at the Foro Italico where the Italian Open has blossomed into one of the tennis calendar's most prestigious events.

The center court in the Italian capital is set to have a retractable roof and an increased capacity of 12,500 by 2028.

But Binaghi said that the area around the grounds, which also houses the Stadio Olimpico where football clubs Roma and Lazio play their home matches, presents challenges for a Grand Slam.

"The existing site poses a number of problems: there is no metro stop, barely any buses, and it's difficult to find taxis," said Binaghi

"It's the most beautiful place to play tennis in the world, but it generates a mountain of extra costs. Every single structure apart from the center court, has to be put up and then dismantled, and that weighs on the budget.

"When I took over the FITP, the Italian Open was dead (...) tennis was the tenth or twelfth sport in Italy, we had no money, we had no players, we had nothing.

"It has been a hundred times more difficult to make the Italian Open what it is today than it would be to complete the final step needed to get a Grand Slam. As long as I am in charge, I will try to achieve it... And if we don't succeed, tennis will miss a unique opportunity that no-one else will have for the next 100 years."

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IOC: No Summer Sports at the 2030 Winter Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry speaks during the opening of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 06 May 2026. EPA/ANDREAS BECKER
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry speaks during the opening of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 06 May 2026. EPA/ANDREAS BECKER
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IOC: No Summer Sports at the 2030 Winter Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry speaks during the opening of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 06 May 2026. EPA/ANDREAS BECKER
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry speaks during the opening of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 06 May 2026. EPA/ANDREAS BECKER

There will be no summer sports at the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday, with any potential crossover to come after that date.

The IOC has been reviewing all aspects of the Games in the past year, including potentially introducing traditional summer sports in the winter edition, to ⁠boost popularity and ⁠participation in the Winter Olympics.

It would also increase medal chances for countries that may not have strong winter sports traditions. Among potential additions mentioned were cycling and running ⁠with cross-country or snow events.

"For 2030 we have taken the decision, no crossover sports, no summer sports," IOC President Kirsty Coventry told a press conference.

She said any change would affect the Games from 2034 onwards. Salt Lake City will host the 2034 Winter Games.

"The Olympic program commission... will look at ⁠all ⁠avenues, and that would potentially lend itself to 2034," Reuters quoted her as saying.

Winter sports federations have opposed such plans, saying bringing in summer sports would dilute the brand of the Winter Olympics.

Introducing popular sports such as athletics or cycling in the Winter Olympics would also mean existing winter sports federations would have to share revenues with them.