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Sports and Recreation

Chinese TV pulls UK Soccer Match After Player Criticises Brutal Muslim Crackdown
Arsenal player Mesut Ozil posted on social media denouncing China for burning Qurans, closing mosques and killing religious scholars.
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Dylan Alcott: 'If I Didn't Find Sport... I Would Not Be Speaking Today'
The Australian paralympian says he hated having a disability when younger, but playing sport changed that.
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Indigenous Tennis Player Ash Barty Awarded Newcombe Medal
The 23-year-old Indigenous sports star thanked her family when she was presented with tennis' top honour.
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Amazing Race Australia Grand Final: Three Teams Go Head-To-Head
Jasmin & Jerome, Tim & Rod, and Viv & Joey compete for the chance to win $250,000 prize money.
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Melbourne Cup Racehorse Rostropovich's Injury Sparks Powerful Reactions On Twitter
Racing Victoria confirmed the horse had been taken to an equine clinic after sustaining a pelvic injury.
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This Melbourne Cup People Are Putting Their Cups Out For The Horses
Along with the 'nup to the cup' movement, many Australians are proving the race that stops the nation is not their cuppa tea.
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Nup To The Cup Is Trending, How Australians Are Saying No To Melbourne Cup This Year
Angry Protestors, gory fascinators and trending hashtags: Aussies dont want a bar of the race that stops the nation in 2019.
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Paralympic Gold Medalist Marieke Vervoort Has Ended Her Life Through Euthanasia
The 40-year-old Belgian wheelchair sprinter suffered from a degenerative muscle disease.
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People Are In Tears Over This Athlete's Superhuman Marathon Run
"The way he ran the last 1km had tears rolling down my cheeks. What a day for sports. What a day for mankind," one person tweeted.
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Colin Kaepernick Still Trying To Play In NFL Despite 'Little To No Response'
The former NFL quarterback has worked out "five days a week, for three years, in preparation to play again," according to his agents.
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