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  Lockdown puts Mabia’s Olympic hopes into jeopardy

  Wahid Ullah Bakul | Updated at 11:29pm on April 17, 2021

  The ongoing countrywide lockdown and the subsequent cancellation of all passenger flights have thrown the country’s premier weightlifter Mabia Akter’s hopes of participating in the...

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  Ismail blames lack of regular training for int’l failure

  Wahid Ullah Bakul | Updated at 11:54pm on April 15, 2021

  Country’s fastest man Mohammed Ismail blamed lack of regular training for his failure at the international stage after his dismal show in the just concluded...

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  ‘Virus could force Olympics cancellation’

  Agence France-Presse . Tokyo | Updated at 09:06pm on April 15, 2021

  A senior Japanese politician said cancelling the Tokyo Olympics over the coronavirus remains a possibility on Thursday, as a surge in cases renews concerns about...

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  AIUB students shine in Bangladesh Games

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:04pm on April 13, 2021

  Students of the American International University Bangladesh have made their mark in the just concluded 9th Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games by clinching nine medals. They triumphed...

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  BGB director distributes prizes among Bangabandhu Games medal winners

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 05:16pm on April 13, 2021

  Director general of Border Guard Bangladesh major general Md Safinul Islam distributed prizes among the medal-winning BGB players in Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Games-2020. Bangabandhu 9th...

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  How table tennis changed the world

  Agence France-Presse . Shanghai | Updated at 01:12am on April 12, 2021

  It was 50 years ago but Zhang Xielin still remembers vividly how a shaggy-haired American table tennis player stepped onto the Chinese team's bus, a...

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  PITCH foundation’s helping hand to Nadir, Rubel

  | Updated at 12:16am on April 12, 2021

  Pitch Foundation, a voluntary organisation formed recently to support the game of cricket, had donated Tk two lakh respectively to ailing international umpire Nadir Shah...

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  Swimmer Tumpa rues lack of international success

  Wahid Ullah Bakul | Updated at 11:15pm on April 11, 2021

  Bangladesh Navy swimmer Sonia Akter Tumpa, who finished the just concluded 9th Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games with highest 11 medals – eight gold and three silver...

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  Curtain falls on Games with Ansar on top

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:39pm on April 10, 2021

  The curtain of the 9th Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games fell on Saturday with a simple virtual closing ceremony at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka. Bangladesh...

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  Twenty years after heading for NBA, Pau Gasol dons Barca shirt again

  Agence France-Presse . Madrid | Updated at 05:44pm on April 10, 2021

  Twenty years after leaving Barcelona for the riches of the NBA, 40-year-old Pau Gasol returned to the Spanish club on Friday, playing in a EuroLeague...