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Still only 17, Gout is already one of the most exciting prospects in global athletics, earning comparisons with Jamaican great Usain Bolt and training with Adidas stable-mate Noah Lyles in Florida. Teen sprinter Gout Gout will make a much-anticipated world championships debut in Tokyo this month as he marks an early milestone in a career Australia hopes will peak with Olympic gold at Brisbane 2032. Still only 17, Gout is already one of the most exciting prospects in global athletics, earning comparisons with Jamaican great Usain Bolt and training with Adidas stable-mate Noah Lyles in Florida. All this while juggling…

Retirement account balances, which fell at the start of the year due to market volatility, bounced back in the second quarter, according to the latest data from Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest provider of 401(k) savings plans.The average 401(k) balance jumped 8% from a year earlier to $137,800, a record high, Fidelity found.The average individual retirement account balance also rose 5% year over year to $131,366.Number of 401(k), IRA millionaires hit all-time highsThe rebound in account balances helped boost the number of 401(k) millionaires to an all-time high. The number of 401(k) accounts with a balance of $1 million or more jumped to 595,000 as of June 30, up…

KAMPALA: Uganda’s half-marathon world record holder Jacob Kiplimo and double Olympic champion Joshua Cheptegei will miss this month’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo due to personal reasons, the country’s athletics federation said late on Tuesday. Kiplimo, 24, became the first person to run the half-marathon in under 57 minutes when he set a stunning world record of 56 minutes, 42 seconds in Barcelona this year. Cheptegei, 28, won gold in the 5,000 metres at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and in the 10,000 metres at last year’s Paris Games, but finished ninth in the Tokyo Marathon in March this year.…

Coffee beans, including those from Brazil, are displayed for sale at Porto Rico Importing Co. coffee seller, in New York City, U.S., July 15, 2025. Adam Gray | ReutersCaffeine levels aren’t the only things spiking for coffee drinkers lately.Prices for coffee have soared, fueled largely by volatile weather that’s reduced crop harvests among major growers like Brazil and Vietnam, according to analysts.Ground roast coffee prices in the U.S. hit $8.41 per pound in July, a record high and a 33% increase from a year ago, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.Global coffee prices are hovering near a 50-year high…

HARARE: Pathum Nissanka top-scored with a swift 55 as Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by four wickets in Harare in the first of three Twenty20 Internationals on Wednesday. Zimbabwe posted 175-7 in 20 overs, thanks mainly to 81 runs from opener Brian Bennett, and Sri Lanka reached 177-6 with five balls to spare. The teams meet again on Saturday and Sunday. After 27-year-old right-hand bat Nissanka played a pivotal role with a half century and a century in a 2-0 One-day International series victory, he proved equally successful in the shorter format. His 15th T20 half-century came off 32 balls and…

The French women’s team have been barred from the boxing world championships because the results of their gender tests were not delivered on time, the French Federation (FFBoxe) said on Thursday. World Boxing said last month women wanting to compete in the event in Liverpool that starts on Thursday would have to undergo mandatory genetic sex testing under its new policy. Such tests have been banned in France since a law was passed in 1994, save under strict conditions, so the French federation had to wait till they reached England in order to proceed with them. The five-member team underwent…

Neeraj Chopra does not usually worry about distance as long as he gets on the podium but the poster boy of Indian athletics knows he may have to throw beyond the 90 metres mark if he is to defend his javelin world title in Tokyo this month. A mop-haired Chopra became India’s first track-and-field athlete to win Olympic gold in the Japanese capital four years ago, and has since added a Diamond League trophy, world championships gold and a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Games. In November last year, the 27-year-old brought in three-time Olympic champion Jan Zelezny as…

PHNOM PENH: Nolberto Solano’s Pakistan suffered an inauspicious start to their 2026 AFC Under-23 Asian Cup qualifying campaign when they were handed an 8-1 thrashing by Iraq in their Group ‘G’ opener on Wednesday. Reduced to 10 men after Mohibullah Afridi’s red card past the half-hour mark, Pakistan trailed 1-0 at half-time in Peruvian Solano’s first game in-charge of the national team. But they were eventually swamped by Iraq, who used their numerical superiority — Pakistan ended the game with nine men after an injury to defender Haseeb Khan in the 66th with all substitutions having been made — to…

LAHORE: Arch-rivals India and Pakistan may not get any tournament of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and of its Asian chapter in future until the two neighbouring countries establish normal political relations, a well-informed source close to the matter exclusively told Dawn on Wednesday. The sporting relations between India and Pakistan is recent times have taken a significant hit amid heightened political tensions particularly following a brief but intense military clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours in May. As a result, Pakistan decided not to send its teams to India for the ongoing Asia Cup and the Junior World Cup —…

Reigning champion Jannik Sinner marched into the US Open quarter-finals Wednesday as Amanda Anisimova avenged her Wimbledon thrashing by Iga Swiatek to set up a last-four clash with Naomi Osaka. World number one Sinner swept aside 10th seed Musetti 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in the first all-Italian men’s quarter-final in Grand Slam history. “It was a great performance, very solid. I started the match very well,” said Sinner, who faces Canadian 25th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the semi-finals on Friday. Auger-Aliassime has won two of three previous meetings but Sinner thrashed him for the loss of just two games in Cincinnati…