Rio’s Olympic Games are fully underway Saturday with road cycling, beach volleyball, boxing and several swimming events. Highlights include the U.S. women’s soccer team facing off against France and the U.S. men’s basketball team taking on China.
Ghana have moved a place up in the latest Fifa World Ranking released on Thursday.July’s ranking sees Ghana on the 36th position – one place better than they did in June - with a corresponding increase in total accumulated points by 21.
Lionel Messi has retired from international duty after missing in a penalty shootout as Argentina lost a fourth major final in nine years.
Senegal's Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura has been appointed as Fifa's first female secretary general.
At the 15-mile mark of the women’s race at the 120th Boston Marathon on Monday, the pack had dwindled to four runners. Atsede Baysa of Ethiopia was not one of them. At 22 miles, she was 37 seconds behind.
