Lionel Messi (Photo: National Herald Archives)

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Luis Rubiales (left), the unrepentant Spanish football federation chief; Jenni Hermoso, the FIFA World Cup winning women's team forward on whom he forced a kiss during the victory celebration. Hermoso has now filed a criminal complaint (photos: DW)

Sports

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Controversial Spanish women's football coach Jorge Vilda during the FIFA Women's World Cup. He has now been fired in the wake of the Luis Rubiales (photo: DW)

Sports

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Demonstration in support of Spain's forward Jenni Hermoso, whom  federation chief Luis Rubiales forcibly kissed during the celebration of the women's football team's FIFA World Cup victory (photo: DW)

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Viswanathan Anand discusses the emergence of young talents and his dual role as mentor and player (photo: @vishy64theking/ Twitter)

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Jay Shah, BCCI secretary and also president of Asian Cricket Council, presents a golden ticket of the ICC World Cup to Amitabh Bachchan. (Photo: @BCCI/X)

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Luis Rubiales, chief of Spain's football federation. Spanish men's football team have also slammed the kiss and his refusal to apologise as 'unacceptable behaviour' (photo: DW)

Sports

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A chess prodigy, D. Gukesh has become India's No. 1 chess player, surpassing the legendary Viswanathan Anand (photo: @DGukesh/Twitter)

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Rohit Sharma with the ICC World Cup trophy. (photo: @BCCI/Twitter)

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Representative image of  LA 2028 promotions (Photo: International Olympic Committee)

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A group of young female football players with their female coach (Photo: DW)

Sports

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Chess plyer R Praggnanandhaa takes part in Tata Steel Rapid and Blitz chess (photo: Gautam Bhattacharyya)

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The Pallekele stadium ground being covered amid rains on Saturday (Photo: IANS)

Cricket

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