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Real Madrid made a £137million ($188m) bid for Paris Saint-Germain’s France forward Kylian Mbappe. Mbappe is out of contract at the Parc des Princes next summer and refused to sign a fresh deal. Despite PSG’s attempts to get the France international to commit to the club Mbappe refused to sign.

PSG’s position of France’s L’Equipe is maintained and will remain unchanged. The Ligue 1 club determined to keep Mbappe until the end of his contract in June next year if he could then leave nothing. Mbappe’s contract will end in the 2021-22 campaign that means Madrid can leave the French side on a free transfer next year.

With less than a week left until the deadline day, the 22-year-old’s future hangs in the balance. They continue to insist the player sign the renewal but the World Cup winner is yet to engage with any new offers to stay but PSG for their part.

Mbappe has joined the PSG at a very early age of 18 in a season-long loan from AS Monaco after which he signed a permanent four-year deal with the club in the summer of 2018.

On Friday, World number one Ashleigh Barty beat Barbora Krejcikova 6-2, 6-4 and reached the WTA and ATP Cincinnati semi-finals. Barty recovered from a breakdown recently.

Ashleigh will face two-line Cincinnati finalist Angelique Kerber. Kerber won her quarterfinal with two-time Wimbledon Champion Petra Kvitova retired during the second set because of a stomach problem. The second set was a tie with 3-3 and Kerber won the first set 6-4.

Barty has been ranked in the number one position for the last 87 weeks. She hasn’t lost a set this week in Cincinnati which is an up event for the U.S. Open. She said in an interview that this is actually why she is here, to have a lot of good matches against the best players before stepping in the US Open. She said she is even excited to play against Ash again.

Her biggest challenge of the week was from Heather Watson in the second round. Barty has since dispatched Victoria Azarenka and Krejcikova in straight sets. She won in the scorching heat and humidity in the morning’s first match at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.

On Saturday, Olympic Champion Elaine Thompson-Herah won the Women’s 100 meters. She posted the second-fastest time ever at the Prefontaine Classic, a Diamond League event, and crossed the finishing line in 10.54 seconds.

According to the champion, she surprised herself, beating Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce by nearly two-tenths of a second. Shreicka Jackson finished her race in third place. American athlete Florence Griffith-Joyer is the only woman to have run faster over the distance with a world record of 10.49 seconds in 1988.

She said that to come back with a personal best after the championship was amazing and she hasn’t run that fast in five years. She had so much more in herself and she made it possible. She was seen celebrating her victory. She made a new record in the race despite coming into the games off the back of niggling injury. The injury had threatened her inclusion to win the games.

Another Jamaican to win three consecutive Olympic 100-meter was Usain Bolt, he won medals between 2008 and 2016. Thompson-Herah now has her chance to win the medal for the same at the Paris Games in 2024.

The Rugby championship began with a record victory of New Zealand against Australia and South Africa beat Argentina to claim the Bledisloe Cup in their opener. 57-22 win at Eden Park was the All Black’s highest ever points total against the Wallabies.

The world champions South Africa defeated Argentina later on Saturday by 32-12 in Port Elizabeth. To seal a 19th straight Bledisloe Cup win New Zealand ran in eight tries. Australia has beaten the All Black at Eden Park since 1986, their match doubled as the second in the three-Test series.

On 7th August, The wallabies lost 33-25 in the Bledisloe Cup which was six points behind at half-time. But the second-half score sealed New Zealand’s bonus point win in fast-paced which was an exciting encounter.

SA made the sweeping change in their team after the previous week’s Test series win against the British and Irish Lions. The win was against the tourists in the XV to face Argentina with only five of them. The host claimed a comfortable victory after missing the bonus point while scoring three tries.

Cobus Reinach covered most of the pitch in a solo effort to wing Aphelele Fassi who claimed Jantjies cross-field kick.

“The greatest striker” of Germany Football team legend Gerd Muller dies aged 75. The forward scored 68 goals in 62 appearances for West Germany. It included the winning goal in the 1974 World Cup final against Holland.

In his 15 years career at Bayern, Muller netted a record 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games and 66 goals in 74 European matches. TheBayren Munich President Herbert Hainer said that today is a sad dark day for FC Bayern and all its fans. He added Gred Muller was the greatest striker there’s ever been and a fine person and character of world football. They are all united in deep mourning with his wife Uschi as well as his family. He values Muller’s contribution in making FC Bayern the club it is today. His name and memory will live on forever.

Muller started his career at TSV Nordlingen before joining Bayern in 1964. During his 15 years at Bayern, he was the Bundesliga’s top scorer seven times German footballer of the year twice. He was the recipient of the Ballon d’Or once in 1970. In 2015 Muller was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He battled Alzheimer’s disease for six long years.

India finished 48th on the medal tally at the Tokyo Olympics 2021. This is the highest ranking in the last four decades. If you look at the total number of medals won by the country, India would have finished 33rd. However, the year ranking is done based on Gold medals won by the countries.

At the Beijing Olympics 2008, India ranked 51st, which was the country’s previous best where India won three medals which included shooter Abhinav Bindra’s gold medal. In the London Olympics, India finished at 57th even after winning more medals than Beijing as the medal table ranks countries by gold, silver, and bronze and India couldn’t manage the gold. Tokyo Games gave one gold, two silver, and four bronze in the country’s account. 23-year-old Neeraj Chopra won first athlete gold in javelin, 26-year-old Mirabai Chanu won silver in women’s 49kg weightlifting category along with Ravi Kumar Dahiya who won silver in men’s wrestling. Indian hockey team won bronze along with PV Sindhu for badminton, Lovlina Borgohain for Boxing, and Bajrang Puniya for wrestling.

It’s the country’s richest medal haul ever and the finest performance of all time at the Tokyo Olympics which ended on Sunday.

The new teenage sensation Quan Hongchan becomes the youngest athlete to represent China at Tokyo Olympics. Quan is only 14-year-old and won her first Olympic gold. Her overwhelming victory in the women’s 10m platform event stunned the world.

Quan was able to collect full marks for three out of five dives as China completed on 1-2. She finished with a lead of 466.20 much ahead of the world champion Chen who was at 425.40. 29-year-old Melissa Wu from Australia won the bronze for 371.40. Quan’s another gold gave China the pride to own all four women’s diving events at the Tokyo Games. In the first round Quan and Chen were on the same scoreboard but Quan’s perfect -10 score gave the lead to her in the second round. She received her 10 from all the seven judges. In her fourth round also she won her second set of 10 and in the final round she received 10 from six judges and 9.5 from one judge.

Surprisingly Melissa Wu won her first ever Olympic gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when Quan was just eighteen months old.

A 41-year long wait for an Olympic medal in men’s hockey comes to an end after India won its bronze. Indian men’s hockey team defeated Germany by 5-4 in a close match which was a thrilling comeback win. The last medal won by the men’s hockey team by India was in the 1980, Moscow Games where India secured a gold medal.

Brace was scored by player Simranjeet Singh while Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, and Rupinder Pal Singh also had their names on the scoresheet for India, reported ny AsiaOne. In the 17th minute, Simranjeet Singh drew level at 1-1. At the end of the second quarter, Harmanpreet Singh was also seen putting on level terms. One goal was pulled back by Hardik Singh making India on a 2-3 score while Harmanpreet Singh had put India again on level terms. Asia One reported that, a penalty was given to Rupinder Pal and he made no mistake to give India a stunning 4-3 lead. Indian players defended stoically while keeping their one-goal lead intact.

Germany was awarded a penalty corner just seconds before the game could end. PR Sreejesh repelled the ball away from the goal. In the joyous moment, the players fell to the ground, finally ending their long wait for a hockey medal at the Olympics.

The latest study warns that athletes are asked more often to compete in environments that are becoming “too hostile” for any human body. The Olympics at Tokyo are considered as one of the hottest and most humid Games on record. The researchers are sounding concerned and alarmed over the health of the world’s top athletes amid the extreme heat.

AsiaOne reported that the daily temperature is expected to be as high as the 80s and low as 90s degrees Fahrenheit. This temperature with humidity feels like 100 degrees. The condition is said to be because of the “heat island” phenomenon where heat gets accumulated and trapped in the center of the city. This phenomenon results in higher temperatures in urban areas. Lack of green space in the center and the over usage of air conditioners and vehicles are also the main reasons for extreme temperatures on the island.

It is posing the athlete and Olympic staff in danger of dehydration, premature fatigue, and heat strokes. On Friday Asia News stated that Russian archer Svetlana Gomboeva fainted due to heat exhaustion during the qualifying round before the Games officially kicked off. World’s no.2 player of men’s tennis Daniel Medvedev said that this was the worst condition he has ever played in.

Karsten Warholm from Norway won the gold medal in a mind-boggling time of 45.94 seconds. Obliterating his a month-old record of 46.70 he ran faster than 18 of the 48 men who raced in the regular 400-meter dash.

The second position was taken by the American athlete Rai Benjamin who won a silver medal for his 46.17 besting the previous world record by more than half a second. Bronze was claimed by Brazilian Alison dos Santos for 46.72. It is hailed as one of the greatest Olympic races of all time. Norwegian was seen screaming in happiness after watching his clock just after crossing the line. In the winning speech he said he was not able to feel his legs in the last 20 meters and just ran for his life. Benjamin who stood second was scarcely a minute behind Warholm.

The race was quickly compared with Usain Bolt’s first 100-meter race in Beijing with a victory of 9.69 seconds which gave him global superstardom. Meanwhile, Warholm breaks Kevin Young’s 29-year-old world record which he just did a month ago. Warholm now has a gold medal, world record, and the title of Olympic Champion.