July 2021

Netflix Loses ‘Knights of Sidonia’ Movie & TV Show Rights to Funimation

Knights of Sidonia – Copyright. Polygon Pictures The future of Knights of Sidonia has been set, and sadly that future is no longer with Netflix. It has been announced that Funimation has acquired the rights to the upcoming Knights of Sidonia movie Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars, in addition, it has been

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IOC praises weightlifter Laurel Hubbard before transgender athlete’s Olympic debut

The International Olympic Committee has praised the weightlifter Laurel Hubbard’s “courage and tenacity” as she prepares to become the first transgender athlete to compete in an Olympics on Monday. The IOC’s medical and science director, Dr Richard Budgett, said “everyone agrees that trans women are women”. Hubbard’s participation in Tokyo has proved controversial with her

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Olympic athletes fear domino effect as pole vaulters test positive for Covid

Two pole vaulters, including the US world champion, Sam Kendricks, have tested positive for Covid-19 in the Olympic Village, raising concerns of a potential domino effect among athletes. Kendricks’s father, Scott, broke the news on Instagram that his son had become the most high-profile athlete to test positive. Shortly afterwards another pole vaulter, the Argentinian

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Seoul boxing memories, Serie A’s heyday and the great Sally Gunnell | Classic YouTube

1) The Olympic boxing is in full swing, so let’s have a look back to the memorable 1988 edition. Here’s the great Roy Jones Jr losing his gold medal fight to Park Si-hun in a robbery so outrageous that he considered quitting the game and here’s Park explaining the impact of the verdict on his

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Team GB disappointed after television commentary gets players’ names wrong

Team GB’s Kim Little and Rachel Daly have criticised “disappointing” commentary in which players have been misnamed, as they prepared to play in Friday’s quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics. The errors came in a broadcast of the women’s football tournament on Eurosport, whose coverage has come in for widespread criticism. During Team GB’s game against

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