Women’s Boxing Icon Nicola Adams has recently announced retirement from the international arena due to her falling physical condition. She became the first ever women’s boxing champion in Olympics in 2012 and she emulated that performance again in the year 2016 by winning the second gold medal in boxing.
According to the decision taken in the executive meeting of the International Hockey Federation, it has been decided that India will host the men’s hockey world cup 2023 edition. It will be held from January 13 to January 29, 2023 in the country. Apart from this, the 2022 women’s hockey world cup has been scheduled to be held in Spain and the Netherlands.
Sri Lanka has recently become the first ever country from South Asia to declare match fixing a crime according to its bill related to offences in sports. As per the new law, any person found guilty of match fixing related crimes will have to face imprisonment for a period of 10 years and he will also have to pay other related fines to the law enforcement authorities.
Facebook has entered into an agreement with ICC in order to have the exclusive rights for the matches to be conducted in South Asia. This will include the women’s world T20 matches and also the men’s cricket world cup 2023. This social media platform is also going to have the rights for recap of matches for the rest of the world.
China has recently launched the first ever satellite of Sudan named as SRSS 1 from the Long March 4B Rocket for promoting space technology and military research by the country. This satellite has been developed for remote sensing over Sudan and it also aims at advancement in space technology in that country.
