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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Ryan Lochte of the United States qualified fastest on Wednesday for the semi-finals of the Olympic 200 metres individual medley, two places ahead of his career-long team mate and rival Michael Phelps. Lochte clocked one minute 57.38 seconds in the afternoon heats, with Philip Heintz of Germany second in 1:57.59 and Phelps third in 1:58.41. In the same event at London in 2012, Phelps took the gold medal and Lochte won silver....

Infantino replaces Sepp Blatter, whose five terms came to a disastrous end with his suspension by FIFA. Gianni Infantino (Getty Images) A lawyer from Switzerland, Infantino, 45, is general secretary of Europe’s soccer agency. He emerged from voting ahead of Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan and the former FIFA deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne. Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa withdrew moments before the first vote....

RELATED: Pokemon Sword and Shield: Here’s Every Leaked Pokemon So Far Whether or not that’s a deal-breaker for you, Dexit has brought over a considerable amount of anticipation regarding which Pokémon will and won’t make the cut. A bunch of Pokémon have already been confirmed for the game, with some new leaks expanding on that every so often. Let’s now take a look at some Pokémon we really hope are in the game, and some we wouldn’t mind being left out....

The reigning league champions became the first team to finalise their squad for the rest of the season as they look to maintain their place at the top of the Super League standings as well as retaining the Malaysia Cup later this year. Currently leading Malaysia’s top tier by five points to second place Perak, JDT wasted little time in identifying the weak spots in the team and the announcement by Martin Prest on their Facebook page showed just that....

Bengal are placed in Group B alongside Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Odisha, Hyderabad and Assam. Anustup highlighted Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand as “tough teams”, while admitting one shouldn’t jump to conclusions based on how a T20 side stacks up on paper. Led by Anustup Majumdar with wicketkeeper-batsman Shreevats Goswami as his deputy, Bengal have announced a 20-member squad with two players on standby. The 2019-20 Ranji finalists started their preparatory camp at the Jadavpur University Salt Lake campus ground, before shifting base to the Eden Gardens to practice under lights....

It came as both a surprise and a disappointment during the last Nintendo Direct when the final Ultimate DLC character wasn’t announced. Rather than unveiling it during the Direct, Nintendo announced a special Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct for the final character’s reveal, happening tomorrow, October 5, at 7am PT and 10am ET. Ever since, the internet has been in hysterics, as the finality of the situation has started setting in, that in no time at all, Ultimate’s roster will be complete, and no more characters will be added....

Among Us found unparalleled success over the summer of 2020 on mobile and PC. Since then, the game launched on the Nintendo Switch in December, and Among Us sold over 3 million copies in just a month on the Switch. Likely in hopes to promote that version, Sakurai played Among Us and talked about the unique social deception game. RELATED: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Theory May Rule Out Some Popular DLC Possibilities...

Pokemon Unite is the latest installment in the franchise, taking the series into the ambitious MOBA genre of gaming. The game has a playable roster of both series fan-favorites and obscure creatures. Two of these fan-favorites include the shinobi water ninja frog Greninja, and the aura Pokemon Lucario. Greninja is a ranged fighter with clones while Lucario is a lightning bruiser sweeper role for their team. Both of these Pokemon have unique cosmetics that can be bought through the use of tickets in Pokemon Unite, giving them some amazing costumes....

This is the kind of mistake the show didn’t have to make, and the fact that it was likely caused by the desire to get it right doesn’t make it any easier to stomach. Filming schedules were complicated due to the pandemic, and Superman & Lois and Supergirl, which were supposed to coincide in the CW schedule, ended up airing during completely different times of the year. This meant that the shows had a hard time establishing where one fit in the timeline of the other....

However, Arsenal’s board, Arsene Wenger, and their myopic scouts have made themselves notorious for failing to sign future superstars. Here are just a few of the many starlets that slid through the clutches of Arsenal and on to much greater things: #7 Yaya Toure (Age: 20) The Manchester City stalwart is most renown for turning a pretender into a contender. Before Toure’s arrival, Manchester City hadn’t even come close to challenging for the Premier League title....

Microsoft Surface Pro: First up, we’re not quite sure if we want to call the Surface Pro just a tablet – it’s more of a hybrid, really. With its fabulous 10.6-inch display and a resolution of 1920X1280 pixels, this little wonder is as powerful as a laptop and even runs Windows 8 Pro. Within the Surface Pro is an Intel Core i5 processor, 4 GB of RAM, an Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset, and 64/128 GB of internal storage....

But in 2020? Several teams have reached the 20-game mark — not, um, the Cardinals — and that means one-third of their season is in the books. Still a small sample size, but a very important sample. MORE: Blue Jays’ temporary home has been a launching pad Let’s take a look at where we stand, one third of the way through a very bizarre season. That’s so 2020 Most 2020 happening: The Cardinals, who are finally scheduled to resume play on Saturday, haven’t played 20 games because of positive COVID-19 tests....

Not only does fleshing out the players like this make them more sympathetic to the audience (because it’s actually fun to watch likeable people play this game and win), but it also allows viewers to see how tight-knit the tribe itself is. It’s easy to forget that the people in this game often grow to care about each other - despite all of the scheming - because they’re spending a month in isolation together....

As the episode starts, Sami is also seemingly annoyed that the tribe went with the easy vote last week by getting Jeanine out. He wants to make a big move, and his target is James - he just doesn’t have the numbers (yet). Owen is mad because James told him to vote for Ryan before the last tribal but then changed the vote without telling Owen, which leads Owen to believe that James doesn’t trust him....

The 23-year-old has started to establish himself at San Siro this season, having been loaned out to Genoa in 2015-16. He scored twice in the 2-2 derby draw with Inter last month to underline his growing importance to Vincenzo Montella’s side and is not short on confidence. Asked if he was up to the task of representing the likes of Madrid and Barca, the former Liverpool man told Marca: “I believe that yes, that I am demonstrating it little by little....

Fields posted his intention on his protected Twitter account on Wednesday night, then confirmed in a text message to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that “it’s true.” On a profile portion of Fields’ Twitter page that is visible to the public was the phrase “from TCU to SFA, just trying to achieve my goal in life.” Fields last month surrendered to authorities on a misdemeanor assault warrant amid allegations that he threatened his ex-girlfriend and punched her....

An aide in the Senate President’s office opened a letter addressed to Fann at about 4:30 pm on Wednesday, and saw a “small amount of substance” inside the letter, according to Mike Philipsen, Director of Communications for the Senate GOP. Philipsen also said that DPS sent a hazardous materials team to the senate at about 6:30 pm on the same day to run tests. In an email on Thursday, Philipsen wrote that on Wednesday, “an assistant in President Fann’s office opened a letter addressed to the President....

The 70-year-old Swede was introduced Monday as the coach of the Philippines after a famous stint with England more than a decade ago. Eriksson has also coached Mexico and Ivory Coast, and numerous club teams including Roma, Lazio, Benfica and Manchester City. Eriksson says “I suppose one of your questions will be why I am here? It’s not easy to answer that question.” But Ericksson says he wants to “do something a little different....

So naturally, the team celebrated like they just won a championship. Nick Young was back to being Swaggy P (like he ever left), first by crashing Jeremy Lin’s postgame interview with Jordan Hill. MORE: Westbrook dishes 17 assists | Richard Jefferson posterizes MKG | Classic MJ photos Young was really having fun hyping up his great defense, his swag and other probably inappropriate things. “I just locked [Evan Turner] up....

The Cote d’Ivoire international pulled up in discomfort at the beginning of the game and was substituted after four minutes, with Tammy Abraham coming on in his place. Clement is unsure of the extent of Bony’s hamstring injury, though he remains hopeful. “It was a strange one,” he told club website. “It was only two minutes into the game and I don’t know what action he had done at that point to create the injury....