Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk was booed after refusing to shake hands with her Belarusian opponent at the Roland Garros tournament in Paris on Sunday. The tensions stemming from Russia’s ...
Babasaheb’s universalist vision of the community based on maitri enriches the political imagination everywhere The first Dalit autobiography to be published, Baluta created a stir when it ...
Afterwards the Odessa-born 30-year-old declined to shake Sabalenka's hand in a gesture of solidarity with the country of her birth. Several Ukrainian players have snubbed post-game handshakes with ...
Aryna Sabalenka cruised into the second round of the US Open on Tuesday but was left shocked after her Ukrainian-born opponent refused to shake her hand before making a hasty exit. The Belarusian ...
On Thursday, August 24, Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska was up against Canada's Eugenie Bouchard in the qualifying stages of the 2023 US Open. After winning the match, Yastremska decided not to shake ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—After winning a grueling, tightly contested match that lasted nearly four hours, Tomas Berdych didn’t expect to be met by a stadium full of booing and hisses.
An Iranian weightlifter has been banned from the sport for life after he was seen shaking hands with an Israeli competitor. Mostafa Rajaei took a photo with Maksim Svirsky at the World Masters ...
A Stalin shook hands with a US president for the first time in decades on the sidelines of the G20 summit in India at the weekend. Rather than the long-dead former Soviet dictator, the guests at ...
Tennis crowds were shamed again on Tuesday when Alexander Zverev's late-night US Open round of 16 match against Jannik Sinner was marred by a racial slur made against the German No 12 seed.
Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and online with extensive coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. More coverage details here. Belarusian Victoria Azarenka says "it ...
