A bus carrying 23 players and four staff became trapped in a flooded underpass near Matrei am Brenner on Wednesday night, forcing rescuers to ferry everyone to safety. The dramatic evacuation has delayed a cup tie and intensified a row over the team’s high-risk tactics.
Greece’s National Amateur Football Council has announced a new island-club cup after thousands of supporters marched through central Athens. The 24-team tournament will begin next spring, with travel costs and team-hosting support built into its first season.
A new Mexican football competition meant to withstand hotter playing conditions began with a 104-minute delay after its pitch-cooling system flooded the field in Mérida. The failure has alarmed sports and climate experts just as officials warn that an El Niño pattern could make next year’s heat and water pressures worse.
Six athletes were hauled from the Nile after two rowing shells overturned during a Cairo regatta on Friday, prompting anger over a rescue boat’s failure and questions about how competitors were paid. The Nile Oar Council has suspended the event and ordered a review of records that listed some rowers as unpaid trainees.
A new study says removable shoe attachments gave runners a measurable edge at the Baltic Autumn Road Cup in Riga, where the men’s 10km race was decided by less than a second. The findings have prompted athletics officials to consider urgent equipment checks before the next major Baltic meet.
A public hearing in Seoul has thrown South Korea’s second-tier football promotion race into crisis after evidence showed six clubs’ licensing appeals were sent to a temporary website. The league has paused playoff preparations, but says a decision on the clubs’ eligibility may come just days before the first match.
A 72-year-old volunteer has been elected president of a small football club in Saint-Flour, winning a close vote that left members astonished. Days later, an old league register showed she had helped found the club 31 years ago, though its anniversary history left her out.
A new study of Swedish sports-club elections has traced a knife-edge vote in 2018 to a player who is still guarding the same goal at 50. Yasmin Sachdeva says she went to the meeting for one practical reason: keeping her team close to home.
A Christchurch market purchase has overturned a 35-year-old result after a buyer found a finish-line photograph and a timekeeper’s original note hidden inside its frame. Esther Heuer, long listed as runner-up in the national 10,000m, has now been recognised as champion.
A South African football club has sued its league over lost revenue from a 16-month spell playing away, just as it prepares to return to its Cape Town ground. Sports-law experts say the case could force leagues to rethink who pays when a club is uprooted — and whether homecoming matches can repair the damage.
A 128-29 loss in Hangzhou has set a new scoring record in China’s university basketball circuit — and exposed how abruptly reduced support for international students is hollowing out team rosters. The defeated campus says its opponent faced only six eligible players after funding cuts left places unfilled.
Three clubs in Bangladesh’s Bay Shield T20 received private storm-track alerts well before other teams during last season’s rain-hit fixtures, a public hearing in Dhaka has found. The early warnings helped trigger match postponements worth six points in the race for the playoffs.