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Four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry Four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry ended his sneaker free agency on Monday, announcing a 10-year deal with Chinese company Li-Ning after leaving Under Armour last November.Curry, 38, revealed the deal on social media and called it “the partnership of a lifetime” that will include global expansion of his Curry Brand, basketball products, a golf line, leisure clothing and the ability to sign other athletes to his brand.”This is bigger than a show deal, bigger than a signature series,” Curry said in a video, saying Li-Ning will deliver “sneakers that I believe in that will continue to deliver at the highest level.”Other Li-Ning athletes with their shoes include Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler, Curry’s Golden State Warriors teammate.Curry had been a partner with Under Armour for 13 years before the split and had worn various brands through the NBA season. Related Story Source link
Even if the Middle East war stopped immediately, disrupted global humanitarian supply lines would not recover before 2027, the UN said yesterday.Nearly 100 days on from the February 28 US-Israeli attacks on Iran that triggered the conflict, the fall-out extends far beyond the Middle East region, said Jean-Cedric Meeus, chief of global transport and logistics for the UN children’s agency Unicef.”The disruption to the global humanitarian supply chain is impacting children across all the globe, with continued congestion in global supply chain routes and higher costs,” he told a press conference in Geneva, speaking from Mogadishu in Somalia.Weeks of indirect US-Iran talks, threats and airstrikes have failed to end the war or reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the key shipping channel for Gulf oil and gas.”What begins like a disruption from lanes into the Middle East, the Hormuz Strait, spirals directly into humanitarian crisis,” said Meeus.”For Unicef, persistent delays and high operational costs, when they come into the context of global funding crisis, are already causing impossible choices.”Behind this cascading disruption is a simple but brutal equation,” he said, with every extra dollar spent on transport meaning less money spent on aid for children.The logistics chief said air freight capacity had tightened across the Middle East, some airlines had stopped serving certain African destinations and port congestion was spreading across Africa.He said air freight costs for vaccines from India to Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo had increased by 50 to 70 %.”There are so many ripple effects,” he said.Even “if we come to an agreement and the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, the situation will not improve before the end of the year” for UNICEF’s supply lines, said Meeus.UNCTAD, the UN trade and development agency, said oil price shocks from the war were having a heavy impact on developing countries forced to choose between financing essential imports and other priorities.”A geopolitical shock is becoming a development shock for countries with the least capacity to absorb it,” said UNCTAD spokesman Marcelo Risi.”Whenever a ceasefire or even a peace agreement is reached, these impacts linger over time: they don’t fade away, and some might become even structural.”Meanwhile the World Health Organization reported continued deterioration in fuel availability and health system resilience.The most severe impacts are concentrated in Cuba, Gaza, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen, said WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier.”Refined fuel shortages, particularly diesel, remain the principal operational threat to health systems because of dependence on generators, cold chains, ambulances, water systems and humanitarian logistics,” he said. Source link
Alexander Zverev breezed past Rafael Jodar to stay on course for an elusive Grand Slam title at the French Open, where Marta Kostyuk and Mirra Andreeva will meet for a place in the women’s final. Zverev, the highest-ranked player left in the men’s draw, put an end to Spanish teenager Jodar’s impressive Roland Garros debut, easing to a 7-6, (7/3), 6-1, 6-3 win on Tuesday. The 29-year-old Zverev is the clear favourite for a maiden Grand Slam title. He has finished runner-up on three occasions, including at the 2024 French Open. “I want to win the matches that are ahead of me, that is my goal, that is my aim,” said Zverev, who has only dropped one set en route to the last four. It is the fifth time in six years he has made it to this stage in Paris. “I’m happy to be in the semi-finals, for now,” he added. Zverev will play the winner of the night-time encounter between Brazilian sensation Joao Fonseca and Czech youngster Jakub Mensik. For Jodar, the grind of back-to-back five-setters appeared to take its toll as he struggled to cope after blowing a 5-2 lead in the opening set. The 19-year-old Jodar was featuring at just his second major. He was ranked 707th in the world this time last year, losing in the first and second rounds of second-tier Challenger events in the United States during the 2025 French Open. Both Fonseca and Mensik will be playing in their first Grand Slam quarter-final later on Tuesday. Fonseca, 19, backed up his third-round win over Novak Djokovic by beating two-time Roland Garros finalist Casper Ruud. He is the first Brazilian man to reach the French Open last eight since three-time champion Gustavo Kuerten. ‘Flashbacks’ Earlier, the in-form Kostyuk held her nerve to withstand a comeback from compatriot Elina Svitolina in the first all-Ukrainian women’s quarter-final at a Grand Slam in the Open era, winning 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. The 23-year-old Kostyuk extended her unbeaten run on clay this season to 17 matches to reach her first Grand Slam semi-final. “I’m very happy I found a way. It was very difficult in the first two sets,” said Kostyuk, who again dedicated her victory to the people of Ukraine. The country was hit by hundreds of Russian drones and dozens of missiles early Tuesday, killing at least 18 people. “We had another difficult night in Ukraine, especially in Kyiv where so many people died, so I want to give this match to Ukraine,” said Kostyuk. Svitolina, 31, fell at the quarter-final stage at Roland Garros for the sixth time. It is the only major where she has not reached the last four. Kostyuk has been an outspoken supporter of Ukraine during the ongoing war with Russia. Her next opponent is Russian teenager Andreeva, who she beat in the Madrid Open final last month. “I usually never care who is on the other side of the net. I’m there to play tennis and do my job, and that’s it,” said Kostyuk. Andreeva breezed into her second French Open semi-final earlier in the day with a 6-0, 6-3 rout of Romania’s Sorana Cirstea, who plans to retire at the end of the season. The eighth seed needed less than an hour to dispatch the 36-year-old Cirstea, appearing in the last eight in Paris for the first time since 2009. Andreeva beat Cirstea en route to the title in Linz earlier this year, but made short work of her opponent under the roof on Philippe Chatrier as rain and strong winds arrived in Paris after last week’s heatwave.”I’m super happy that I’m going to be playing in semis again,” said Andreeva. “I felt like it was one of my best matches so far this tournament.”Andreeva atoned for the disappointment of her quarter-final loss to French outsider Lois Boisson 12 months ago. “I was just trying to have flashbacks only about the weather and only about the court with closed roof, not about how I played. I’m happy that I could turn it around,” she said. Related Story Source link
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