Woman with One Arm Who Escaped Taliban Wins Bronze in Taekwondo at Paralympics
“It was a surreal moment. My heart started beating fast,” Zakia Khudadadi, 25, said of the moment she “threw my helmet and mouthpiece into the air” after winning against Turkey's Ekinci Nurcihan in the women's taekwondo event at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Thursday. Fox News Reported Hudadadi said she was “smuggled” from Afghanistan, […]
Scottie Scheffler wins TOUR Championship, capping off record-breaking 2024 season
Scottie Scheffler is the FedEx Cup champion. The 28-year-old dominated the field all year and made history on Sunday afternoon by winning the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. Scheffler led all golfers in FedEx Cup points and had plenty of room to get ahead going into the tournament, having started the tournament two […]
Germany’s right wing poised for major wins as centrist parties stumble
Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is expected to win its first election since being founded in 2013, with anti-migration sentiment driving voters to the polls. Exit polls on Sunday showed the AfD winning in Thuringia with 33.5% of the vote and Saxony with 31.5%. Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats received less […]
F1 2024: Charles Leclerc wins Italian Grand Prix – live reaction | Formula One
Main Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Oscar Piastri is disappointed. “It hurts. I'm not going to lie, it hurts a lot. I did a lot of things well today. Going into the race there were a lot of question marks with the strategy. “One stop seemed like a […]
Paralympian who was hit by a car last week wins gold, years after Afghanistan war injury
South African-British cyclist Jaco van Gas won gold in the men's 3,000m individual pursuit and set a new Paralympic world record, just a week after being hit by a car in Paris. Just a few days ago, Van Gas was rounding a corner during training when a car came hurtling towards him and his bike. […]
Aryna Sabalenka wins latest-starting match in US Open history
Aryna Sabalenka finally recovered from a poor start in the slowest start in U.S. Open history to beat 29th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 at Ashe Stadium early Saturday morning to reach the fourth round. The second seed didn't enter the match until 12:07 a.m. and lost the first set just 30 minutes later, […]
Paralympic shot-putter Raoua Tlili wins fifth straight gold
Tunisia's Raoua Turili's legend continued on Friday at the Paralympics in France. Trili has now won his fifth consecutive gold medal in the shot put, adding to a medal bag he has already won having won top prizes in Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, London and Beijing. Her throw of 10.40 meters helped her win the […]
Taliban escapee with 1 arm wins taekwondo medal at Paralympics for refugee team
Zakia Khudadadi won the bronze medal in women's taekwondo on Thursday, becoming the Refugee Paralympic Team's first medallist. The medal marks a major milestone in Khudadadi's long and winding story, which began with her being born without forearms and includes her escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan many years ago. Immediately after defeating Turkey's Ekinci Nurcihan in […]
This state may decide whether Harris or Trump wins the 2024 presidential election
SAVANNAH, Georgia – Vice President Kamala Harris woke up Thursday in this historic coastal Georgia city, a key battleground in the presidential election and one of seven states that will likely determine the winner of her 2024 matchup against former President Trump. The vice president, accompanied by his running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, began […]
Dan Evans wins longest US Open match in history with grueling 5-setter: ‘I just want to go to bed’
British tennis player Dan Evans set to cause upset in 2022 US Open On Tuesday, semifinalist Karen Khachanov won a grueling battle that lasted more than five hours to reach the second round, breaking the record for the longest match in U.S. Open history. Evans, ranked 184th in the world, lost track of time at […]