By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 50 top international padel players — including both men and women teams — will face off in the last round of the 2022 World Padel Tour Open at Mexico City’s Juan de la Barrera Olympic Gym between Tuesday, Nov. 22, and Sunday, Nov. 27. The competition will include 52 couples in total, 26 from the
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By MARK LORENZANA Ana Gabriela Guevara, head of Mexico’s National Commission for Physical Culture and Sports (Conade), has filed a lawsuit against five-time world racquetball champion Paola Longoria. Conade filed the civil lawsuit against Longoria on Monday, Aug. 29, with Guevara publicly declaring that Longoria had to repay unliquidated expenses that the athlete had incurred from 2015 to 2018, to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican diver and two-time Olympic medalist Paola Espinosa announced Monday, May 9, that she is retiring from the sport after more than two decades in competitions. The first and only Mexican to win a World Swimming Championship, both in individual and synchronized events, Espinosa said in a video conference Monday that she was withdrawing
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By MARK LORENZANA “I want to be one of the greatest Mexican fighters of all time.” This was the confident answer of Óscar Valdez Jr. — a two-time Olympian who represented Mexico in Beijing 2008 and again in London in 2012 — when asked at a pre-fight interview before his scheduled bout against World Boxing Organization (WBO) super featherweight champion
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican figure skater Donovan Carrillo on Monday, Feb. 7, won a spot in the finals of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The 22-year-old Carrillo, the first Mexican to compete in the sport in over three decades and the only Latino in the competition, made history during his short program debut at the Beijing 2022 Winter
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With just four bronze medals, and no gold or silver, Mexico had its worst haul of Olympic medals during the Tokyo games since the 1996 Atlanta games. Although the Mexican delegation did come in fourth place seven times, it had a disappointing medal count in Japan. It won bronze medals in the mixed archery
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s men soccer team won a fourth medal for country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by beating Japan 3-1 on Friday, Aug. 6. The team won bronze medal by defeating the host country in a game that was considered the rematch of the 1968 Olympic Games, when the Japanese defeated Mexico 2-0 and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Weightlifter Aremi Fuentes Zavala became Mexico’s third Olympic medal winner at the Tokyo Games, claiming bronze for lifting 245 kilograms on Sunday, Aug. 1 Neisi Patricia Dajomes Barrera of Ecuador won gold lifting 263 kilos, and Katherine Nye of the United States won silver with a 249-kilo lift. Mexico now has three metals, including
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican synchronized divers Gabriela Agúndez and Alejandra Orozco won Mexico the bronze metal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games on Tuesday, July 27. The pair won in the women’s 10 meters synchronized platform diving. Agúndez and Orozco were one of the great hopes of the Mexican team. Agúndez won a silver medal at the
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