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A stadium under construction with two large cranes above, partially filled with spectators, and colorful seating visible on a clear day.
Human rights
Foreign laborers protest working conditions and unfair pay for renovating Barça football stadium
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A female climber with braided hair is scaling a bouldering wall with colorful holds, wearing a black sleeveless top and shorts.
Sports
Pan-American climbing competition is a Latin American milestone
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A professional cyclist in a green and blue uniform celebrates triumphantly as they cross the finish line in a race, with a cheering crowd in the background.
DW
Can you ride faster uphill than a cycling legend?
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A skier in full gear descends a snowy slope, creating a spray of snow behind them as they turn. They are wearing a helmet, goggles, and a black racing suit with various sponsor logos.
Sports
New rules aim to safeguard skiers in an inherently dangerous sport
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Sports
Emily Scarratt to make English history with fifth Rugby World Cup appearance
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DW
A soccer league brings locals and refugees together in Madrid
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Sports
International Cricket Council pledges funding, support for Afghanistan’s exiled cricketers
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Sports
Canadian runner to retrace impressive family history at Boston Marathon
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Sports
Young girls in Kenya find safe, empowering coaches at Nala Track Club
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Sports
Celebrations over Alexander Ovechkin’s NHL goals record despite his pro-Kremlin politics
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Japan in Focus
Kyudo: A look into Japan’s oldest martial art
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Japan in Focus
American football finds a way in Japan
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Sports
International athletes pivot to American football for a chance at joining the NFL
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Sacred Spaces
This aging Buenos Aires stadium continues to be the undisputed ‘temple of soccer’
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Sacred Spaces
Mapuche sports help Indigenous Chileans revive culture
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Japan in Focus
Nobuko Oshiro: Okinawa’s only female karate grandmaster
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Sports
Tarahumara runners torn between tradition and comfort
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Summer Olympics 2024
After the gold: A look at how some Olympic champions are being welcomed home
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Lifestyle
In southern Turkey, a surf school helps earthquake survivors process trauma and loss
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Summer Olympics 2024
‘I’m not finished’: Badminton’s Beiwen Zhang wants gold in the final Olympics of her decadeslong career
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Summer Olympics 2024
Rebeca Andrade leads Brazil’s women’s gymnastics team to the Olympics
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Summer Olympics 2024
France sets its sights on the gold medal in blind football at the Paris Paralympics 
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Sports
Eritrean cyclist makes Tour de France history
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Sports
Baseball rises in Argentina thanks to Venezuelan migration
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Sports
Latvian basketball fans are rooting for ‘unicorn’ Porziņģis in the NBA finals
3:55
Japan in Focus
Women fight for respect in Japan’s sumo rings 
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Lifestyle & Belief
More people are running marathons than ever before. Why?
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A view of Paris, France, with the iconic Eiffel Tower in the distance.
Women & Gender
20 years after France’s hijab ban, the issue remains divisive
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Summer Olympics 2024
This Paris suburb gets a facelift amid controversy ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games
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Gaza Sunbird team members distribute much-needed food aid and other supplies in Rafah, Gaza in February 2024.
Israel-Hamas war
Gaza Sunbirds paracycling team pivots to aid distribution amid war
competitive camel racers pose for a picture with their camels
Sports
Women’s camel racing team takes an ancient sport back to the future
Serhiy Ivanov is a goalkeeper with Ukraine's first amputee soccer club. 
Ukraine
‘Keep on living’: Wounded vets in Ukraine establish first amputee soccer club
Student athlete posing in a blue uniform and holding a basketball at a photo shoot
International students still restricted from NIL deals
The main rule of "walking soccer" is no running.
Sports
‘Walking soccer’ trend in Spain keeps people of all ages in the game
Three women in red soccer uniforms holding their hands up with a trophy
Sports
Spain made history with Women’s World Cup victory — despite team tensions
woman facing camera
Women & Gender
A traditional Iranian sport has been closed off to women. One activist wants to change that.
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić (15) shoots over Miami Heat guard Kyle Lowry (7) during the second half of Game 1 of basketball's NBA Finals, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Denver. 
Sports
Nikola Jokić takes center stage at NBA Finals and Serbian fans are loving it
stadium
Sports
New Kings and Queens soccer leagues enlist internet stars to revamp sport
Two players from Boston bruins and Montreal Canadiens hockey teams talk to each other on the ice
Montreal Canadiens superfans brace for historic record to be smashed
Surfing instructor Godpower Tamarakuro Pekipuma in Lagos, Nigeria.
Sports
‘Walking on water’: Surfing makes waves in Nigeria
Fans are seen on the stands during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Khimki and Rostov Rostov-on-Don, in Khimki, outside Moscow, Russia.
Ukraine
Russia’s new Fan ID law seen as new form of authoritarian surveillance
Ukrainian fencers train at the National University of Physical Education in Kyiv.
Ukraine
Athletes in Ukraine strive for Olympic gold 
Bullfighting is still legal in the Colombian city of Manizales, which holds a major festival on the first week of January.
Justice
Colombia’s plan to ban bullfighting sparks debate on tradition, animal rights
grassy mountain
Climate Change
An unseasonably warm winter in Europe threatens ski resorts, tourism
players on field
World-renowned soccer great ​​Pelé dies at 82
Namibia Flores was the only female boxer in Cuba for years. She has been training for almost two decades, with the dream of representing Cuba at the Olympics. 
Sports
Cuba to allow women boxers to compete after decades of restrictions
Palestinians react as they watch a live broadcast of the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Morocco and France played in Qatar, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. 
Sports
As World Cup wraps, Morocco team inspires Arab unity around the world
Argentinian players celebrate after winning penalty shootout during the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. 
Sports
Argentina hailed World Cup champions after dramatic win
Players from Tavriya Simferopol huddle together at a match earlier this year.
Sports
War disrupts Ukrainian soccer, but the game still goes on
soccer player with head in his hands
Lionel Messi’s last shot at World Cup glory
soccer jersey for sale
Sports
Brazil’s yellow-and-green soccer jersey stirs up controversy
A giant inflatable copy of the trophy is displayed prior to the start of the World Cup group A soccer match between Qatar and Ecuador at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Nov. 20, 2022.
Sports
Qatar opens World Cup with lavish half-hour ceremony
Victor Wembanyama, player from the Metropolitans 92 during a game against the Elan Bearnais, in Levallois Perret, near Paris, Tuesday, Sept.27, 2022.
Sports
French basketballer ‘Wemby’ aims for a shot in the NBA
Castellers de la Vila de Gràcia team compete to make a human tower, or castell. 
Sports
Human towers contest returns to Catalonia after 4-year hiatus
Players and officials of the soccer club Arema FC pray outside the Kanjuruhan Stadium where many fans lost their lives in a stampede Saturday night in Malang, Indonesia
Police
Indonesian police probe tear gas firing at soccer match
Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala celebrates after winning gold in the men's 100m final during the athletics in the Alexander Stadium at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England
Sports
This Kenyan sprinter is inspiring more youth from his country to take up the sport
Angella Okutoyi, 18, seen wearing a red shirt and swinging a ball with her racket, is Kenya's fastest-rising tennis star.
Sports
Kenyan tennis star Angella Okutoyi inspires a new generation
The all-female collective Imilla Skate in Bolivia
Culture
These Indigenous female skateboarders are breaking stereotypes in Bolivia
two students on the beach
Surfing scientists in Spain are hunting down microplastics 
Soccer may be China’s national sport, but enthusiasm for frisbee — a quintessential American sport — is soaring in China.
Sports
The rise of Ultimate Frisbee as a team sport in China