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Athletics

Zuzana Hejnova, former 400m hurdles world champion, retires

BySportsNERDMay 18, 2022

The Czech Zuzana Hejnova, 35 years old and former double world champion in the 400 meter hurdles, announced her retirement from sports on Tuesday, as she is pregnant. “I am going to have a child with my partner. It would be difficult to reconcile everything,” explained

Boxing

Jermell Charlo knocks out Argentine Castaño and is the first undisputed super welterweight champion

BySportsNERDMay 18, 2022

In their 2021 draw rematch, American Jermell Charlo knocked out Argentina’s Brian Castaño on Saturday to become the first undisputed super welterweight champion. In a fight of great equality and with electric moments, Charlo sent Castaño to the canvas twice in the

Athletics

De Gendt wins eighth stage of Giro d’Italia

BySportsNERDMay 17, 2022

A decade after his first Giro d’Italia stage victory, Belgian rider Thomas De Gendt claimed his second win on Saturday in stage eight, with Juan Pedro Lopez retaining the leader’s pink jersey. De Gendt, with the help of teammate Harm Vanhoucke of the Lotto Soudal

Motoring

Verstappen rules in the first Miami GP

BySportsNERDMay 16, 2022

Max Verstappen capitalized on an aggressive maneuver to overtake championship leader Charles Leclerc and then controlled the inaugural Miami Grand Prix at will to claim his third win of the season. The reigning world champion started third, but Red Bull wasted no time in

Boxing

Mike Tyson will not be charged over plane altercation

BySportsNERDMay 16, 2022

Former boxing champion Mike Tyson will not face any charges for repeatedly punching a passenger on a plane last month in the United States, a California prosecutor said. The decision was made based on the circumstances of the accident, “including the victim’s

Boxing

Amir Khan, former super lightweight world champion, retires

BySportsNERDMay 16, 2022

Former super lightweight world champion Amir Khan, 35, announced his retirement from sports on Friday after 17 years of professional career. The British boxer, former WBA and IBF super lightweight world champion, announced “that he was hanging up his gloves” with

Athletics

Woman with prosthesis ran 102 marathons in 102 days

BySportsNERDMay 15, 2022

Playing Forrest Gump in the 1994 Oscar-winning film of the same name, lead actor Tom Hanks abruptly stops running after three years in a row and tells his followers: “I’m very tired, I think I’ll go to home now”. Jacky Hunt-Broersma could feel the

Boxing

Bivol claims not to feel like the king for having defeated “Canelo” Álvarez

BySportsNERDMay 13, 2022

The Russian Dimitry Bivol, light heavyweight champion of the World Boxing Association, assured that he did not feel like the king of boxing for having beaten the Mexican Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, considered the best pound-for-pound fighter. «I only defeated a rival

Boxing

Former boxer Pacquiao defeated in Philippine elections

BySportsNERDMay 13, 2022

Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao acknowledged his defeat in the Philippine presidential elections, overwhelmingly won by Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of the deceased homonymous dictator of this Asian archipelago. “As a boxer and an athlete, I know how to accept defeat,”

Motoring

Sebastian Vettel protests in underwear over FIA dress code

BySportsNERDMay 10, 2022

The German Sebastian Vettel joined the Englishman Lewis Hamilton on Friday in his challenge to the attempt of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) to control the use of jewelry and underwear by the pilots and put his underpants on top of the jumpsuit in the Miami